[plug] Telnet and FTP

[Kai]

G'day Jas',

I thought the telnet server package would be named something other than
"telnet-server-...." but it wasn't, I checked my RH6.2 CD ROM and foun
dit under RPMS, so no worries there.

I know a litte about Linux, not a helluvua lot, so I do want to be able
to problem solve things myself, rather than asking the group all the
time.
I know the basic commands for rpm: install, query etc and I have
downloaded a lot of the HOWTO's off the Aussie LDP mirror - NET-HOWO is
where I learned how to get my Linux machine to work under masquerading,
if I can do it, anyone can. :)
Thanks for the other pointers Jason, will check em out when I get some
time !

/Kai

Jason Nicholls wrote:
> 
> 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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