From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: `rpm -qi telnet-server` says that "The telnet daemon is disabled by default. You may enable the telnet daemon by editing /etc/xinetd.d/telnet." But it's not true. The default behavior has changed, as changelog says: * Fri Dec 01 2000 Trond Eivind Glomsrd <teg> - make sure the server is turned off by default So it seems somebody forgot to change the description. BTW, the wrong description is in other languages, too. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): telnet-server-0.17-20 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install telnet-server 2. check to see if telnet daemon is up and running (e.g. "netstat -l --inet" or "telnet localhost") Actual Results: In fact, that's not a bug that the telnet daemon doesn't run. What is wrong is the description. Expected Results: Package description shouldn't lie :) Additional info: The description is wrong not only in RHEL 2.1 on an i386, but also in RHEL 3, 4 and Fedora Core 3. Users of other RPM-based distros may also possibly confirm this wrong description.
... Am I to guess that your description is backward? Because the way you described it, it's disabled by default, which as far as I can tell is what the changelog says...
the description on AS2.1 is wrong.. it says, that the daemon is enabled by default
Damn! I wonder how could I do the mistake in my description of this bugzilla entry and didn't notice it??? `rpm -qi telnet-server` *really* says: (blah blah...) The telnet daemon is enabled by default. You may disable the telnet daemon by editing /etc/xinetd.d/telnet. You can verify it yourself. Sorry for that confusion. (if only I could edit it)
$ LANG=C rpm -qpi telnet-server-0.17-20.EL2.3.i386.rpm ... The telnet daemon is disabled by default. You may enable the telnet daemon by editing /etc/xinetd.d/telnet. Now, specspo needs to be fixed