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14
Configuring and Managing TELNET
The TCP/IP Services product includes and implementation of the TELNET
end-user application.
This chapter describes how to set up your host as a TELNET server.
For information about using TELNET, see the DIGITAL TCP/IP Services for
OpenVMS User’s Guide guide. For information about using the TELNET print
symbiont, see Chapter 23.
This chapter describes:
• How to manage the TELNET service (Section 14.1)
• How to solve TELNET problems (Section 14.2)
14.1 Managing TELNET
Managing TELNET includes the following tasks:
• Setting up user accounts
• Creating and deleting sessions
• Displaying login messages
14.1.1 TELNET Startup and Shutdown
The TELNET service can be shut down and started independently of TCP/IP
Services. This is useful when you change parameters or logical names that
require the service to be restarted.
The following files are provided:
• SYS$STARTUP:TCPIP$TELNET_STARTUP.COM allows you to start up
TELNET independently.
• SYS$STARTUP:TCPIP$TELNET_SHUTDOWN.COM allows you to shut
down TELNET independently.
To preserve site-specific parameter settings and commands, create the following
files. These files are not overwritten when you reinstall TCP/IP Services:
• SYS$STARTUP:TCPIP$TELNET_SYSTARTUP.COM can be used as a
repository for site-specific definitions and parameters to be invoked when
TELNET is started.
• SYS$STARTUP:TCPIP$TELNET_SYSHUTDOWN.COM can be used as a
repository for site-specific definitions and parameters to be invoked when
TELNET is shut down.
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