I used YaST2 to enable ftp telnet shell and login under Basic Network -> inetd I then saved my changes and came back to the prompt... I checked /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/services to make sure that the appropriate entries were there, they were! using telnet as an example... /etc/inetd.conf telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd /etc/services telnet 23/tcp # Telnet telnet 23/udp # Telnet then # ps -ef|grep inetd root 14412 1 0 11:01 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/inetd root 14854 14671 0 13:38 pts/7 00:00:00 grep inetd #kill -HUP 14412 # ps -ef|grep inetd root 14412 1 0 11:01 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/inetd root 14854 14671 0 13:38 pts/7 00:00:00 grep inetd Shouldn't the process id change for /usr/sbin/inetd ? Also I still cannot telnet in... and none of the other services I initialised login, shell and ftp are working either... what am I missing? thanks -- Ahbaid Gaffoor