telnetd mystery ....

[Ed Greshko]

First....  No need to bring up the ssh v.s. telnet stuff.....

Has anyone configured telnetd for use on F18?  Running 64 bit....but this shouldn't make a difference.  Anyway, I did the normal procedure.....

1.  yum install telnet-service
2.  opened telnet port on the firewall (not that it mattered since local also fails)
3.  chkconfig telnet on
4.  systemctl restart xinetd.service

When I telnet in (remote or local) I get this....

[egreshko at meimei ~]$ telnet f18x
Trying 192.168.0.168...
Connected to f18x.
Escape character is '^]'.
Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow)
Kernel 3.7.4-204.fc18.x86_64 on an x86_64 (3)
Connection closed by foreign host.

And this ends up in /var/log/messages....

Jan 29 11:41:29 f18x xinetd[4488]: START: telnet pid=4665 from=192.168.0.18
Jan 29 11:41:29 f18x xinetd[4488]: EXIT: telnet status=0 pid=4665 duration=0(sec)

However, if I add

server_args     = -D options

to the /etc/xinetd.d/telnet file it "works".   But, of course, I get debug info that I don't want....

The same procedure in F17 works fine....

What could I be missing?

-- 
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. -- Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled