From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 12 11:41:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB94B37B400 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 11:41:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from catflap.home.slightlystrange.org (host217-39-46-78.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.39.46.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EFF443E58 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 11:41:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danielby@home.slightlystrange.org) Received: from danielby by catflap.home.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17T5MI-00045M-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:41:38 +0100 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:41:38 +0100 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Enabling Telnet capabilities Message-ID: <20020712184138.GA15559@catflap.home.slightlystrange.or> Reply-To: dan@slightlystrange.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 06:23:36PM +0000, Jed Sargent wrote: > > > Been trying to add the capability to Telnet into my Box, but have been > unable to so far. All of the reference material is for doing a serial > connection, which I can do, just not an ethernet connection. I believe my > problem is in the TTYS file, not using the right line entry on the ttyp0. Show us your current config. Tell us about what happens when you try to connect - error messages, timeouts, what? You probably don't need to alter any of the pseudo terminal values in /etc/ttys, and you must enable telnetd in /etc/inetd.conf. Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message