on Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 10:56:03AM -0400, Aaron Traas (adt6247@njit.edu) wrote: > I just installed debian on a new system today. Everything is working > beautifully, except telnetd. I'm using xinetd (also tried inetd), and > when I attempt to telnet to the machine, it sends me the contents of > /etc/issue.net, and then eats up 99% CPU and just hangs. I don't know > what to do. Any help would be appreciated. I'll issue the standard advisory: telnetd is an insecure protocol and it's very strongly recommended that you *not* install or activate telnetd on your system. SSH is an encrypted, authenticated drop-in replacement, with clients available for all significant computing platforms. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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