cant able to telnet the freebsd system

Bill Moran wmoran at collaborativefusion.com
Wed Dec 6 05:31:24 PST 2006


In response to ratheesh at eginnovations.com:

> 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

"sockstat -4" will show you whether it's listening or not.

The actual error messages would be more helpful than a generic "it
doesn't work"

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.


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