Hello, On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 01:44:20AM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 08:49:54PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > > Hello Dan, > > I was wondering if I moght ask you a question. I got my linux box to mail > > out but I still cant get it to receive mail. Its giving me connection failed > > for the smtp. I tried telnet localhost 25 but I get the same thing > > connection refused. And idea's
Do you have the telnet daemon enabled in /etc/inetd.conf ? Look for a line something like : telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.telnetd If the "telnet" entry is commented out ("#") then it's disabled. Just remove the '#'. Regards, Robert ---------[snip]------------------------------