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| Thread ID: 46315 | 2004-06-20 02:43:00 | lots of linux help needed | robsonde (120) | Press F1 |
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| 246237 | 2004-06-20 02:43:00 | me thinks that this thread might go on for some days as I solve each of my problems :-) some might remember that I was looking for a linux distro to make a router/web server from..... I have an old K6II300 with 64Mb of ram. I have installed mandrake 10.0 with NO X-WINDOWS, this is a text only command line system. to make my life easy i want to be able to telnet in to the box and do all the set up for the router and web server. I can ping the box and i know the IP and sub net are set right. I cant telnet in to the box from windows XP. I assume that I have to put telnet in to the inetd.conf ?? where is it on a mandrake system?? remember that I have NO X-WINDOWS, this is a text only command line system. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 246238 | 2004-06-20 04:18:00 | I can never remember the exact address for this but /etc/inet.d? /etc/xinet.d? The directory has a file for each of the services, which can be edited (with joe?). Each one has a line "disable=yes" if, like telnetd, it is disabled by default. make it "disable=no" and it should start at the next boot. Or, to start it manually, "service telnet start". Since you won't be using a GUI on it, learn to use mc. It is a very clever file-manager/explorer/do anything. It even displays contents of RPMs and tgz files, install/upgrade RPMs... just about anything.It has a text editor (F4), file displayer (F3),will rename/move/delete (F5) copy (F6) ... F10 exits. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 246239 | 2004-06-20 05:06:00 | > I can never remember the exact address for this but > /etc/inet . d? /etc/xinet . d? The directory has a file > for each of the services, which can be edited (with > joe?) . Each one has a line "disable=yes" if, like > telnetd, it is disabled by default . make it > "disable=no" and it should start at the next boot . > > Or, to start it manually, "service telnet start" . > I still cant find inet . d or any such thing . . . . I tried to do the manual "service telnet start" and got an error of "cannot find telnet service" |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 246240 | 2004-06-20 05:09:00 | I have found /etc/xinetd.d/cvs this looks a bit like it might be the file I need to play with..... yes? no?? |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 246241 | 2004-06-20 05:23:00 | cvs will be Concurrent Versioning System and is used to run continually updated versions of programs. Just a thought. Did you look at using webmin (http://www.webmin.com) rather than telnet. Your distro would already have the rpm on the disks and there are numerous modules available that would do what you are wanting to do. Security might even be slightly better :) |
Gorela (901) | ||
| 246242 | 2004-06-20 07:23:00 | Ohhhhhhhh, Deep down, I knew there was a reason why I have not tried Linux. Seeing this post reminded me - I don't actually know what they are talking about - so therefore what chanch (?) have I in being sucessfull with that OS. Pity, I would just love to have an alternative to MS. :-) |
Tobas (224) | ||
| 246243 | 2004-06-20 07:39:00 | What varient/version of MS Windows are you refering too? | mark.p (383) | ||
| 246244 | 2004-06-20 08:55:00 | Does Mandrake support the text based menu system that Redhat does? Type "setup" while logged in as root to check. This is the easiest way to start and stop services if it is there. (startup -> services) | JohnD (509) | ||
| 246245 | 2004-06-20 09:14:00 | mandrake does not have a setup or other text config type thing that i can find...... webmin looks like a tool i will try tomorrow, i dont know if it will let me set up services and routing and web servers and such like, i think i will need telnet as some stage...... |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 246246 | 2004-06-20 11:20:00 | Try using SSH rather than Telnet, you're more likely to have ssh installed. SSH = Secure SHell Basically its like Telnet for Linux only secure ;-) If you installed the service you should simply be able to start it by logging in as root (in a console) and typing: /etc/init.d/telnet start or: /etc/init.d/sshd start If you get sshd started, then grab Putty (the.earth.li) and use it as your Windows Client to connect to your Mandrake box :-) Hope this helps Chill. |
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