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Re: Disable inbound telnet. What am I missing..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Smith)
Mon Oct 19 16:43:14 1998
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 15:46:00 -0500 (CDT)
From: Kevin Smith <kevin@mtsu.edu>
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On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Michael wrote:
> I thought I knew how to disable inbound telnet services, comment out the
> line in /etc/services. But when I do that I get the message ;
>
> telnet: tcp/telnet: unknown service
>
> when trying to telnet out of the box. O where have I gone wrong???
no... you need to comment out the telnet line in /etc/inetd.conf, not
in the services file... make the change to the inetd config, and restart
inetd (/etc/rc.d/init.d/inet stop;/etc/rc.d/init.d/inet start)
That will fix your problem...
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Kevin Smith
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