unable to connect to Yellow Dog Linux machine through telnet

[RON FLORY]

Timothy.Cappiello@gd-ais.com wrote:

> How do I enable a yellow dog Linux machine to accept telnet requests?  When
> connecting to the machine the message "Could not open a connection to host
> on port 23 : Connect failed"

  if you are on a local private network and security is NOT an issue,
try changing the following line in:

/etc/xinetd.d/telnet

  from:

        disable     = yes

  to:

        disable     = no



  Then restart xinitd

      /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart


  ssh is nice, secure and all that rot, but its a bit of overkill
on a private local network.

ron