Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (605 mails)

[StarTux <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18 Oct 2001 09:35:47 -0400, Glenn Hancock wrote:
> I am trying to learn Linux and am new to the OS.  I have installed with
> default installation and am now trying to figure a few things out.  I
> want to use the finger server port 79 in order to test some things and
> then would like to disable it again.  I have added necessary information
> to services, and to inetd.conf related to the man tables.  I have
> rebooted.
> 

In SuSE you can use "rcinetd start" (without the quotes) to get it going
without rebooting.  

> I can run finger locally but not from another computer on the network
> directed to my Linux box.  I also try to look at processes running and I
> don't see inetd running.  Is there something I have to do in order to
> get finger and telnet to operate because I haven't been able to find
> anything in your help files.
> 

rcinetd status will let you know if its running, or ps -e. If finger is
working locally, but not from another machine you might want to use this
command: tailf /var/log/messages and then attempt to do your fingering.
If it fails /var/log/messages may well tell you why (not sure why, check
/etc/hosts.allow and maybe enter finger:<ip_address or host>.

Telnet should just work as long as you've installed the server and
client (from series n on the CD).

Matt

> Thanks,
> 
> Glenn Hancock
> 
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