On Thu, Apr 05, 2001, Kevin Stokes wrote: > Thanks for the guidance on getting rid of the automatic gnome-login. > > >I'm not exactly sure what you want this program for, but you seem to > want to use telnet as a client in which case you'd want 'telnet' > package, rather than 'telnetd'; the 'd' at the end of telnet lets you > know it's a daemon, in other words, it's installing a telnet server > for you to allow others to telnet to your machine.< > > Yes, that is exactly what I want to do. I already have telnet on my Linux > system, and it appears to work, although none of my Windows machines will > allow me to telnet to them. > > What I'm looking to do is be able to run Telnet on my Windows machines, and > log into my Linux system across the room and use it, since it would be much > more comfortable for me. > > Security is not a huge issue since my local network is sitting behind a > hardware firewall anyway.
Understood, however, I often still prefer to use ssh behind a firewall. > > Thanks again for the help. I do have another mega-newbie question. I > was using CONTROL-ALT-DELETE to shutdown my Linux system. Since it > auto-starts the GNOME stuff now, this no longer does anything. What is the > command to shut down? > > Kevin Stokes > Pie in the Sky Software > www.pieskysoft.com > Hi, You probably want 'shutdown -r now' for reboot or 'shutdown -h now' for power down (halt). You also might find 'apropos <keyword>' useful to scan through man pages on the system to find if anything matches a <keyword> of interest to you (in case you don't know the command name for the function you want.) In this case, I get (just sharing with you so you know more for the future): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apropos shutdown shutdown (2) - shut down part of a full-duplex connection shutdown (8) - bring the system down Hope this helps, Daniel > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Daniel A. Freedman Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics Department of Physics Cornell University
