telnetd won't run

[Albert Graham]

# lsof -i:23

Will show you whats listening (i.e. program name and PID)

Also check your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files in case they 
are denying acess.

Are you using some other authentication scheme (e.g. PAM) or some 
firewall settings (e.g. iptables/ipchains).

You should contact the mailing list for your distribution you are using 
as this list is specific to Fedora/Red hat based distros.

Al.


vladak at madnet.co.yu wrote:
>> You're using another (old) none Red Hat/Fedora based Linux distribution:
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>> On Redhat/Fedora try:
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>> chkconfig telnet on
>> service xinetd restart
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>> The telnet config file is /etc/xinetd.d/telnet
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> T>he fact that you're seeing
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>> "Escape character is '^]'.
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>> Connection closed by foreign host."
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>> Indicates the something is listening on port 23 (telenetd is running), otherwise >you'd see something like: "Connection refused"
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> Txh for feedback. Guess you are right about everything! But I still don't know how to fix this. Who is listening on port 23, telnetd? If it is, why does it close all connections?
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> I tried: /etc/xinet.d/telnet restart didn't help
> Checked structure of this file and it's same like some I found on web.
> What can I try next?
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> Vlada
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