setting up telnetd

I need help setting up telnetd on my server, preferable without using
the inetd.conf file. I read many of the documentations I found of the
web concerning setting up a telnet server. However I can't seem to get
the telnetd daemon to run.

when I execute telnetd with the command "/usr/libexec/telnetd" it does
nothing, i.e. no messages and no errors, and it doesn't grab and retain
my shell either. It also doesn't appear in my process list, which means
its not running.

I had installed this program when I complied and installed the Inetutils
package on gnu.org website.

On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 21:24:37 +0000, R. K. Kishore wrote:

> I need help setting up telnetd on my server, preferable without using the
> inetd.conf file. I read many of the documentations I found of the web
> concerning setting up a telnet server. However I can't seem to get the
> telnetd daemon to run.
>
> when I execute telnetd with the command "/usr/libexec/telnetd" it does
> nothing, i.e. no messages and no errors, and it doesn't grab and retain my
> shell either. It also doesn't appear in my process list, which means its
> not running.

Two questions come to mind:

Why do you want to run telnetd without (x)inetd? If you're running a
telnetd you can't be concerned with security so you won't be compromising
anything by adding an inetd.

Why do you want to run telnetd at all? It's an out of date insecure
service. Sshd is almost always preferable.

But, if you do have a good reason for running a telnetd (and I hope this
is on a well secured network with an independent firewall) I don't believe
you can without (x)inetd. Telnetd was designed as an inet service, I've
never seen it run stand alone. I don't think it has its own listening
code. Sshd will run stand alone of course.

Regards, Ian