Re: simultaneous windows and cygwin telnet service

[Jon LaBadie <jcyg@jgcomp.com>]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 10:06:48AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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


AMAZING :))

Use the correct files and things work correctly (at least as expected).

Thanks Corinna.

jon
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