Enabling telnet

[Paul Smith]

On 11/19/06, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> > > do you have something listening on port 9734 already? if so, then
> > > there's nothing to do, except issue the telnet command (there's no
> > > colon between ipnunmber and port in telnet).
> > >
> > > i.e., unless you didn't install the telnet client for some reason,
> > > there's nothing to do to enable use the that client.
> > >
> > > now, if you don't have something already listening on 9734 and are
> > > trying to get the telnet daemon to listen there, that's a different
> > > issue.
> > >
> > > [if you have iptables running you could be blocking inbound connection
> > > attempts to random ports and you'd need to adjust that.]
> >
> > Thanks, Rick. Apparently, I do not have anything listening on 9734. I
> > get the following:
> >
> > $ telnet 127.0.0.1
> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
> > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> > $
> >
> > Any further ideas?
> ----
> psychic powers do not allow telnet to connect to other than port 23
> unless it is specifically told to do so.
>
> telnet 127.0.0.1 9734
>
> telnet --help
> or
> man telnet
>
> will show you the proper terminology
>
> Obviously this assumes that there is a 'listener' for a connection on
> port 9734. You can probably verify that something is listening to port
> 9734 with a command like
>
> netstat -an|grep 9734

Thanks, Craig. The result is:

$ telnet 127.0.0.1 9734
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
$
$ netstat -an|grep 9734
$

i.e., ' netstat -an|grep 9734' returns nothing.

Paul