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Re: simultaneous windows and cygwin telnet service
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 09:29:42PM -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 11:32:29PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > Is it possible?
> >
> > Perhaps by specifying the cygwin service use a different port?
> > Then one could "telnet host" and get the standard windows
> > service or "telnet host <new_port>" and get the cygwin service.
>
> If you're running telnet with inetd, you just need to make a simple
> change to inetd.conf. Say your current telnetd line looks like this:
>
> telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/telnetd telnetd
>
> The first word in the line says "telnet" but what that really means
> is that /etc/services is consulted for what port/protocol "telnet"
> uses. If you look at /etc/services you'll see something like this:
>
> telnet 23/tcp
>
> If you changed that number to 24 and restarted inetd, you'd have inetd
> listening for telnet connections on port 24.
Correct. It's just the services file which is located elsewhere
on WIndows systems. The file is
${WINDIR}/SERVICES on 9x/Me and
${SYSTEMROOT}/system32/drivers/etc/services on NT/2K/XP
Corinna
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