[SunHELP] Telnetd

[Sreenivasa Rao Vadalasetty]

Dear friend,  the daemons that are configured in inetd.conf are not meant to
be started and kept running.   The purpose of inetd is that  the daemons get
started only when there is a request for that particular service. In your
case, having telnetd in inetd.conf doesn't mean that you would find telnetd
running on server start-up.  But, it means that inetd would listen for
telnet requests and start the given telnet daemon whenever there is a
request.  You would find in.telnetd running when a telnet request is being
serviced.

You can say this is a problem if you are now not able to telnet to that host
. 

I'm sorry if you are already aware of this and have some different problem.

Sreenivas,

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Songonuga, Tope [SMTP:tsongonuga at sevenww.co.uk]
	Sent:	Friday, August 31, 2001 2:58 PM
	To:	Sunhelp (E-mail)
	Subject:	[SunHELP] Telnetd

	Can anyone help me please?

	I have an E450 (production server) on which telnet has been enabled
via
	/etc/inetd.conf, yet telnet wasn't started the last time the server
was
	rebooted.
	I have tried to run the sighup command against the pid of
/usr/sbin/inetd to
	no avail.

	Is it possible to manually start the telnet daemon
(/usr/sbin/in.telnetd)?
	If so, how?

	Thanks.


	Tope Songonuga
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