[plug] Telnet and FTP

[Jason Nicholls]

G'day,

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:56:25PM +0800, Kai wrote:
> 1) prolly not, what is the package name of the telnet server/daemon ?

At least with RedHat 6.x the "telnet" package contains both the client and
server.

> OK, SSh I have heard a bit about, anyone can suggest what version to
> download for RH and a URL to go?

Rather than taking a 'it hopeless' approach to everything, why not start to
get some discovery and problem solving abilities under your belt.

Good places to start for finding software:

	1. Your distribution CD(s)

	2. http://www.freshmeat.net/
	   (in this case search for openssh)

Good places when you're stuck trying to do/setup something:

	1. man pages
	
	2. http://www.linux.org.au/LDP/
	   (Linux Documentation Project)

If you're using RedHat, how about reading the RPM man page. By familiarising
yourself with RPM you could have potentially solved part of this problem
(whether the server was installed or not), eg:

	1. find all packages that may do with telnet
		rpm -qa | grep -i telnet
	   Will return something like: telnet-0.10-31
	2. list package contents
		rpm -ql telnet
	   Will return (amongst other things): /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
	   (if you check for the telnet line in /etc/inetd.conf it'll have the
	   name of the program it executes, on my system it's "in.telnetd";
	   surprise surprise).


Later,

Jason Nicholls
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