Matthew Theobalds wrote:

>I am trying to get my box to accept FTP or Telnet connections via another
>machine on the Ethernet network.
>
>I cannot, however, seem to do it. I have them all set up correctly and one
>of the machines is well aware of the NetBSD box on the network. (It
>complains if the IP is stolen).
>
>However, I cannot get the NetBSD machine to accept a connection via either
>of these interfaces. I am assuming it is down to something like the
>/etc/rc.conf not activating the correct network apps to listen out for a
>connection at system initialisation. Would this be a fair assumption?
>
>What would be the best solution? There doesn't seem to be an answer in any
>of the man pages / Documentation that I can see.

With 1.5 all the daemons are disabled by default (we're OpenBSD-secure 
now).  You need to uncomment the services you want in /etc/inetd.conf and 
restart inetd (or reboot).

-bob