On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 11:22 -0500, John Bray wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 12:54 +0100, T. Horsnell wrote:
> > >On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 10:46:23 +0100 (BST), Jonathan Allen wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi All,
> > >>
> > >> I'm trying to enable rlogin and telnet services on a FC4 machine. I
> > >> use the system services menu program, select and tick the box for both
> > >> services, save and exit. But the service never starts and if I reopen
> > >> the services menu program the boxes are unticked again.
> > >>
> > >> What gives ? Is this a bug ??
> > >
> > >What can you demonstrate by verifying the services with the command-line
> > >tools ("chkconfig" and "service")?
> >
> > You ought to see files like
> >
> > /etc/xinetd.d/telnet
> > /etc/xinetd.d/rlogin
> >
> > with contents like:
> >
> > # default: on
> > # description: The telnet server serves telnet sessions; it uses \
> > # unencrypted username/password pairs for authentication.
> > service telnet
> > {
> > flags = REUSE
> > socket_type = stream
> > wait = no
> > user = root
> > server = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
> > log_on_failure += USERID
> > disable = no
> > }
> >
> >
> > If 'disable = yes' then the service wont function.
> > Try editing this. I dont know how this cooperates with
> > the system-services app.
>
> the services app appears to be completely unable to change the disable
> setting. i have tried to turn on services run by xinetd a number of
> times now, and the only way that they can be enabled is to manually edit
> the config file for them.
Does "chkconfig telnet on/off" not work either?
Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
