No telnet command...

[SuperKen]

Hello, just installed Mandrake 8.0. Running KDE and when I run a terminal screen, there is no telnet command?!.

What is up with that, and how do I get it back?

Thanks.

[shaggy112]

can you be more specific?

do you mean that if you type telnet...it says "no such file or directory"?

what are you trying to do...and what error is it giving you?

[SuperKen]

k, when I type "telnet" this is what is says.

bash: telnet: command not found

What I am trying to do, is to telnet to my router.

[compunuts]

You do not telnet your own machine. You telnet to differnet machine.

telnet remote-host

HTH....

[SuperKen]

k, do people think im retarded or something??

Even when I type "telnet 192.168.1.xxx"

I get the same error.

[shaggy112]

understand.
this means that either for some odd reason, you don't have telnet or more likely, it isn't in your path.

try '/usr/bin/telnet 192.x.x.x'.

if that doesn't work 'locate telnet | more', and see if you can find it.

and no...i don't think your retarded
:)

[ 01 May 2001: Message edited by: shaggy112 ]

[SuperKen]

Yah, I already tried /usr/bin, and it wasnt there.

Is there any possible way that mandrake didnt install this command????

I wouldnt think so, cuase I would think its part of most shells...

I dont know, any other ideas??

[shaggy112]

hmmm....i cannot imagine any *nix distro not coming with telnet. i know mandrake comes with it....but whether or not it was installed, i do not know.

if you like, i can ftp the telnet command to you and you could just put it in place??

That is assuming of course that your box has a public ip.

or i could place mine in a certain spot and let you ftp me....if you like to do that...send me mail jeffh@mics.net

[compunuts]

May be it was replaced with SSH? No I didn't think anybody is retarded for asking questions and there are none to indicate so. We do not know your level of Linux skill so ;)

[shaggy112]

compunuts....good point.

BUT...do you really think that mandrake would have replacedtelnet with ssh?

After all...you can't ssh into a router.

[compunuts]

Yeah!! You are right.....

Hmm I don't know much about Mandrake.. sorry....

[rick420]

Yea I have 8.0 too and no telnet command is installed by default. If u try "telnet anyIP" u get bash:telnet command not found

I had a friend telnet to me and it didn't work until I installed gnome-telnet. but I can't telnet still

What do I do to be able to telnet out of my box?

[demetrius]

You need to install the telnet rpm. Hard to believe it wasn't installed by default (it was on my install of 7.2 and 7.1 as well) but if you check your cds it is there. From an ftp listing of rpms included in 'drake 8.0: ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/8.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/telnet-0.17-7mdk.i586.rpm

[Rastar]

Drake 7.2 did not autoinstall telnet either. So I quickly chose to install both the server and client (what a mess). It should be on disk 1 or 2 of your distro just fire up the old rpmmanger and search for telnet. It will list a few. SSH did not replace telnet but it is much more secure. As for telnet'ing to your router? What kind of router do you have? I assume you are trying to configure it. My linksys router is accessed via the web browser and perhaps yours may be as well.

And after reviewing all my posts I would never consider you being retarded. If you are bored some time search for my user number it will make for some funny reading. Dang rookie I am and was.

Rastar
:p

[eXtremist]

Guys, why such a long thread..

SuperKen.. All you need to do is install telnet from the installation CD..

Open Mandrake's SOFTWARE MANAGER, and when it's finished doing its startup thing, SEARCH for telnet (there's a search box there, you'll see it). Perl-telnet, telnet, and telnet-server will come up. Click the box next to telnet and click install..

It will ask you for CD1, put it in and it will install it.

Simple answer to a simple problem.