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> -----Original Message----- > From: Dwight Johnson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 12:27 AM > To: Michael P. Soulier > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: update-inetd problem > > On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 10:55:35PM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: > > > # update-inetd --add telnet > > > The entry definition does not contain any whitespace characters! > > > > > > What does this message mean? What am I doing wrong? > > > > Wow. I didn't even know there was an update-inetd program. I always > hack > > the inetd.conf file by hand. > > Can't you just uncomment the telnet entry? > > That's what I have always done on my Red Hat and SuSE installations. But > on Debian 2.2, my inetd.conf file does not have a telnet entry to > uncomment > and the inetd.conf file begins with a commented caution to not change it > except using 'update-inetd'. > > But trying to make sense out of constructing an update-inetd add entry > using 'man update-inetd' and the associated man pages is beyond me. > > What does your inetd.conf telnet entry look like? > > > You shouldn't use telnet > > anyway, unless you're on a closed network. Too much cleartext. Use ssh. > > I would have tried that too, but 'apt-get install ssh' is unable to find > the package on my 2.2 CD set. [CHEONG, Shu Yang (Patrick)] Previously > ssh was NOT OpenSSH....but I read somewhere that ssh in 2.2 is now based > on OpenSSH. (Suggest you check the cds to see whether SSH came as part of > the 3 cd set or is on the "4th cd - i.e. non-free/non-us) . I did not use > apt-get to install ssh...instead, I compiled from source for both OpenSSL > and OpenSSH....works like a charm..... > > Thanks for your help, > Dwight > -- > Dwight Johnson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null
