When you want to enable telnet, you replace disable = yes with diable = no in /etc/xinetd.d/telnet file and restart it by running this command /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart.

Sometime it works and sometime it doesn't.
If I try it several times, I might figure out what's the problem.

Can someone list several possibilities why it wouldn't work?

I'm talking about a clean installation of RH 7.1, and enable telnet right afterward.

My guess is that your xinet is having a problem rather than the telnet daemon. You can confirm by shutting down xinet and see if the file /var/run/xinetd.pid exists.
Try to stop and start the service again. It should work.

I have a personal suggestion here - do not use telnet. It is always safer to use SSH.

Have a great day :)

regards
amar

Originally posted by bobcares
My guess is that your xinet is having a problem rather than the telnet daemon. You can confirm by shutting down xinet and see if the file /var/run/xinetd.pid exists.
Try to stop and start the service again. It should work.

I have a personal suggestion here - do not use telnet. It is always safer to use SSH.

Have a great day :)

regards
amar

Thanks Amar.

I will take a look at that. :D

Go to http://www.openssh.org and install that..very easy to install