Subject: telnet crisis (Was: Re: help please mail crisis !!!)
To: Paul (NCC/CS). <pts@bom.gov.au>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/30/2006 11:05:03 
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 05:39:25PM +1000, Paul (NCC/CS). wrote:

> PS telnet is also refusing connections despite   !  :
> su# grep telnet inetd.conf
> telnet          stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/libexec/telnetd    telnetd -a valid
> #telnet         stream  tcp6    nowait  root    /usr/libexec/telnetd    telnetd -a valid

Did you enable inetd in rc.conf? If not, add 

inetd=YES

in /etc/rc.conf

then 

/etc/rc.d/inetd start

Regards,
	-is