On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 06:12, Mike Partyka wrote: > Ahh, I think I understand now. One followup question though Dave? > > If in the /etc/xinetd.d/ directory there is no telnet file, then does that > mean that telnet is disabled? And the conversely, if there was a telnet file > in there, could i then assume telnet was enabled? If there is no /etc/xinetd.d/telnet file, then telnet will assume the xinetd defaults, as given in the /etc/xinetd.conf file. However, if you don't have a telnet file, then it is likely that the telnet server is not even installed. As far as I know, RedHat provides a config file with each server rpm, to go in the xinetd.d directory. If there's no file, then the rpm is probably not installed. rpm -qa|grep telnet to find out. If you only see telnet-xxxxx, that's the client. There should also be a telnet-server (I'm going from memory here, so my nomenclature might be a little off). -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA "If we wanted you to understand it, we wouldn't call it code." _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list