cant able to telnet the freebsd system

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On Tuesday 05 December 2006 23:01, ratheesh at eginnovations.com wrote:
> Hi Team
>
> I put entry in  /etc/rc.conf  as
>
> inetd_enable="YES"
>
> and after that  /etc/inetd.conf  I  uncomment the telnet line to activate
> the telnet server
>
> then restarted the telnet service
>
> /etc/rc.d/inetd restart
>
> and it get restarted
>
> but I couldnt able to telnet  the server both locally or remote
>
> Regards
>
> Ratheesh
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
The way to do this "live" (i.e. without rebooting) is 

ls -al | grep inetd

take note othe number, such as:

  697  ??  Is     0:00.01 /usr/sbin/inetd -wW -C 60

Then

kill -HUP 697

This will restart inetd and anything that it manages for you, such as telnet, 
ftp, or whatever.

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