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A Unix command-line utility that facilitates simple two-way communications between a user and a server application listening on the specified port.

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How to install a telnet client?

How can we install a telnet client in Ubuntu 16.04? With this command, we can install a telnet server: sudo apt-get install xinetd telnetd But can a telnet client be installed without a telnet server? A telnet server can be dangerous.
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How to start X application from SSH

I've tried to search this topic in google, but without any significant results. I need to start some GUI app from terminal, but I don't care what this app is showing me. In addition, I need to start few instances of this application in different…
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How can I quit when connected via telnet?

I have a telnet connection through askubuntu.com 80 while trying to test cli based webbrowsing for github project. I got my connection established over port 80 but now I cannot do anything, even quit. Is there a way to quit this kind of connection?…
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How can the Telnet service on Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS be enabled?

How can I enable the Telnet service on Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS? Can somebody include a detailed description about the needed packages and configurations?
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How to get telnet to localhost working?

I'm working on a local dev setup that requires the use of telnet (playing with setting up a MUD server) so please no feedback suggesting I use SSH as a more secure alternative. However, though I've got the telnet daemon up, I am getting this output…
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Telnet Server not starting

I am installing Ubuntu Server 13.10 and cant get telnet working on the server. I have installed both xinet.d & telnetd thru apt-get and restarted xinetd but nothing is started when I do a netstat -l. In googling, the trouble I see mention of adding…
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Telnet escape character , norwegian keyboard

Here's me in gnome-terminal, using telnet. As it says "Escape character is '^]' I've no idea which keys to hit, CTRL ] , CTRL Å , CTRL ^ does nothing. This is the keyboard layout of Norwegian keyboards - which keys do I hit to get to the telnet…
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Ubuntu 20.04 C-Kermit 9.0.302

C-Kermit is, to this day, unavailable for apt installation for Ubuntu 20.04. I got the tar from columbia.edu, tried to compile but failed.
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How do I setup multiple minicom / Cisco console server sessions without too much hassle?

I'm working on my CCNA and have 4 switches & 4 routers which make up my main lab. I bought two quad port USB to Serial (1 USB to 4 Serial) Adapters onto the ends of which I've attached 8 Serial rollover cables. Those USBs are plugged into a P4…
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Can telnet to localhost but cannot telnet to my LAN IP

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I config my /etc/network/interfaces like this: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.5.201 gateway 192.168.5.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 This is my…
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Why can't I telnet to MySQL?

When trying to connect to mysql server via telnet I am getting following error: telnet localhost 3306 Trying ::1... Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out I tried telnet with 127.0.0.1, hostname also, but…
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Looking for text BBS software

I would like to know if there are text-based, bulleting board system forum servers for Ubuntu. Which can be used via telnet or ssh. I was searching for this kind of software and came to this BBS…
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How do I disable telnet on Ubuntu Server?

I installed Ubuntu server and I am learning to how secure it. One of the article I saw, was about telnet and how to disable it on CentOS Obviously, it does not work on Ubuntu, so How can I disable Telnet on Ubuntu server? ll /etc/xinetd.d/telnet ls:…
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Ougoing telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

I am trying to telnet from Ubuntu server (running Maverick) on ec2 to another machine I have set up not on ec2 - we'll call it "server-x". Server-x is running an imap server and I am trying to test connectivity to it. The two machines are connected…
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How to enable telnet server

I followed these instructions but when doing telnet localhost or telnet localhost 23, getting unable to connect to remote host: connection refused. I also shut down firewall: sudo ufw disable. When doing sudo /etc/init.d/xinetd status I get active…
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