[GEJOE DANIEL]

1) I configured my system(Fedora-5) as telnet server.This was done by editing
the file ekrb5-telnet in xinetd.d as follows.I changed the last option of disable from yes to no..:

cat /etc/xinetd.d/ekrb5-telnet
# default: off
# description: The kerberized telnet server accepts only telnet sessions, \
# which use Kerberos 5 authentication and encryption.
service telnet
{
flags = REUSE
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/kerberos/sbin/telnetd
server_args = -e
log_on_failure += USERID
disable = no
}

After this i configured my firewall to access my system thro' telnet .But whenever i tried to connect to my system from another system i got the following message:

Trying 192.168.32.5...
telnet: connect to address 192.168.32.5: Connection refused

But i was able to connect to my system using ssh from another system...
what's wrong??

2) What's the meaning of each entry in a single line found as follows in /etc/fsab:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbpen auto noauto,user,rw,exec 0 0

what does noauto and auto mean?what's rw exec 0 0???
Please help...
Thanks in advance..
Gejoe Daniel

[jan1024188]

hi GEJOE DANIEL

2) What's the meaning of each entry in a single line found as follows in /etc/fsab:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbpen auto noauto,user,rw,exec 0 0

do you have any external drive,stick key or usb pen?

that line takes care that device is mounts when you boot into linux

[rcgreen]

The first auto means it autodetects the filesystem
on the device. The noauto is part of the mount
options, meaning that it doesn't mount at boot time
but must be done explicitly.

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man5/fstab.5.html

[GEJOE DANIEL]

thanks for the info about fstab file...
what about the telnet then...let me give additional information...
To find whether any process(daemon) is running for telnet :

[root@cool ~]# ps aux |grep telnet
root 2558 0.0 0.1 3912 680 pts/1 S+ 08:26 0:00 grep telnet
[root@cool ~]# ps -aux |grep telnet
Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.6/FAQ
root 2561 0.0 0.1 3916 716 pts/1 S+ 08:26 0:00 grep telnet


I tried to telnet my system itself using my ip address available:

[root@cool ~]# telnet 192.168.32.5
Trying 192.168.32.5...
telnet: connect to address 192.168.32.5: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

[Skiboy]

Make sure you turned on telnet in 'chkconfig --list'.
Command: 'chkconfig telnet on'

[GEJOE DANIEL]

[root@cool ~]# chkconfig telnet on
error reading information on service telnet: No such file or directory

whats wrong??

[Skiboy]

Chec to make sure you have Telnet installed:
rpm -qa|grep telnet

You should get some thing like this:
rpm -qa|grep telnet
telnet-server-0.17-31.EL4.3
telnet-0.17-31.EL4.3

The fisrt one is your telnet server and the second one is the telnet service, you need this one installed to telnet to the server. Now I run RHEL 4 so the version may be differnet from your Fedora.

Also when you run chkconfig --list, you should see this in there for tenet:

xinetd based services:
rsh: off
eklogin: off
swat: off
chargen-udp: off
time: off
finger: off
time-udp: off
daytime-udp: off
cups-lpd: off
telnet: on
etc, etc ...

Good Luck,
Ski