telnetd

[Peter Garrett]

On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 08:03:03 +1100
James Gray <james at gray.net.au> wrote:

> You should see a line that lists telnet.  If not, restart inetd:
> sudo /etc/init.d/inetd restart

$ less /etc/init.d/inetd
/etc/init.d/inetd: No such file or directory

there is no inetd by default in Ubuntu ...

> 
> FWIW, why do you want to use telnet?  It's unencrypted and as a result 
> extremely insecure.  Why not use SSH?

Fully agreed :)

Peter