[svlug] about RPM

kevin@ank.com kevin at ank.com
Wed Mar 14 19:56:01 PST 2001


Having recently installed 7.0 I was confused by the same thing.

Look for xinetd instead.

Cheers,
-kls

On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 06:21:06PM -0800, Dan Copeland wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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