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:
Thanks,
Glenn Hancock
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