Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <42F3B07B.D4B63C6A@dessent.net> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 11:31:23 -0700 From: Brian Dessent MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Outbound telnet/ftp from cygwin not working References: <65e812bc05080508255ebb07eb@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Report: -5.6/5.0 ---- Start SpamAssassin results * -3.3 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts * -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * 0.3 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list ---- End SpamAssassin results X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Michael Rilling wrote: > telnet: tcp/telnet: unknown service In addition to what Dave said, ensure that you have a symlink from /etc/services to %WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc\services and that there is a line containing the telnet service in that file. This link should have been created upon installation for you, and the default windows services file should have telnet listed, so normally this is not something you ever have to worry about. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/