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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Having spent many hours rattling my head
between two Linux machines trying to get them to talk to each other i finally
achieved it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Rightly the inetd daemon was not
installed.......When configuring "Network Services" using yast the process made
references allowing the inetd daemon to process "Network Services".
The whole process failed to tell me that inetd wasn't installed in the first
place!!! and i wrongly assumed that it was installed perhaps when the whole
system was installed.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>When the inetd daemon was installed i
could connect to the P133 from the P75 but the connection was quickly lost,
closed by the server (P133) itself!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>What was also confusing was that the
Telnet Server was installed but didn't respond either to a telnet connection or
to the command: ps -ef | grep in.telnetd. Why......because the
Telnet Server is only run when requested for by a user, so running the command:
ps -ef | grep in.telnetd when nobody is using the Telnet Server will return a
negative response.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Something else was wrong!
When i looked at the path name for the Telnet Server in the file
inetd.conf it reads: /usr/sbin/<FONT color=#ff0000>tcpd</FONT>
in.telnetd. But the executable in.telnetd isn't in the directory
tcpd! I soon realised that tcpd was required and when
installed everything now works just fine. I understand that tcpd is
required to control login & system/security checks before running the
service requested, in this case the Telnet Server. When i
established a telnet connection from the P75 to the P133 i ran the command ps
-ef | grep in.telnetd on the P133 and there it was! in.telnetd was now
running. Disconnect the telnet session and the Telnet Server shuts
down and the command: ps -ef | grep in.telnetd then returns a negative
response again.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Magic!</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>