I can now take the time to revisit this issue after having been
distracted by my boss for a few days.  If you recall, I cannot telnet,
ssh or rsh into this redhat 8.0 install. rsh will not go out either.
Matt suggested the following:
2) Run nmap and/or netstat to determine if a box is listening on port 23
for telnet and port 22 for ssh:
    # This will show what ports are listening and which applications
    have the ports open (run as root).
    $ netstat -pnl | egrep "22|23"
    # From a remote host:
    $ nmap -p 22-23 hostname
***  neither port is listening at this point!!
3) Run ps to see if telnet/ssh is running:
*** neither is running
    $ ps axf | egrep "ssh|telnet"
4) Search for sshd/telnetd to see if you have a variation of the
ssh/telnet daemon(s) installed:
    $ find /usr -name "*telnet*"
    $ find /usr -name "*ssh*"
***  I have removed and re installed telnet from redhat rpm's.
    
5) If some variation of sshd/telnetd is found, manually run the command
as root:
    $ /usr/sbin/telnetd
    OR
    $ /usr/sbin/sshd
***  I have nothing that resembles a daemon process to execute at all.
 
6) See if you can ssh/telnet to the host from a remote host after
manually running the command.
    user@remotehost$ ssh <hostname or ip_address>
    user@remotehost$ telnet <hostname or ip_address>
***  Nope, nothing
I have the same problem with rsh.  Nothing happens when I execute the
command.  
What the heck as I missing here??  I installed the same OS on a
workstation and viola, everything works.  It is as if the install
screwed up somewhere.
Michael C. Rock
    
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