Not so long ago Bob Nestor said:

> 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).

Once again, thankyou very much indeed for your continued help. I'm just
about to test this out now..

All the very best.

Matthew