Re: [SLUG] strange telnet error

From: Austin Theen (austin@austintheen.com)
Date: Sun Aug 24 2003 - 23:41:40 EDT


check to make sure you have a line such as this in /etc/services

zaphod austin $ grep "telnet" /etc/services
telnet 23/tcp

I had this error come up when I first started futzing with remote X
sessions over VNC. The line may have been clobbered inadvertently.

On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 23:32, pwgrant wrote:
> Fiddling around with a test server I have managed to break telnet. The
> service will no longer start after a reboot or restarting the inetd svc.
> Log file shows:
> Aug 24 23:30:39 server1 inetd[10327]: internal service telnet unknown
>
> Any ideas on how to fix an unknown error?
>
> Freshly loaded Suse7.3 box.
>
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