[svlug] about RPM

Dan Copeland dcopeland at linuxfan.com
Wed Mar 14 18:36:02 PST 2001


On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 05:29:31PM -0800, hsungsoo at myneed.com wrote:
> hi!
> I've installed Redhat 7.0 with default option.
> there are telnet-0.17-7 and  ftp-0.17-6. 
> i want to run those daemon with inetd .
> but ther are no inetd.
> 
> does anybody know which rpm package includes inetd program ?


  inetd is part of the netkit package (the inetd executable is in
the netkit-base RPM).

  I strongly recommend you don't run a telnet server if your machine is
visible from the internet - consider SSH instead
(http://www.openssh.org).  Telnet is inherently very insecure.


							- Dan




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