Hello Stephen!   
      
   Wednesday January 27 2016 16:15, you wrote to All:   
      
    > Hello everyone.  I've been making some head way on this new ArchLinux   
    > and MBSE but I've hit yet another snag.  I can connect to the bbs   
    > using ssh but for telnet it's giving me an error after logging in that   
    > "BBS is not allowed on this port".  I thought this strange as the docs   
    > say network connections don't need to be setup in the TTY Lines any   
    > more.  That and I haven't setup any for the SSH connections.  It must   
    > be something that telnetd is reporting back to the mblogin program but   
    > I don't know how to find this out.   
      
   Have you got in /etc -   
      
   xinetd.d   
      
   and in that mbsebbs   
      
   that contains:   
      
   #:MBSE BBS services are defined here.   
   #   
   # Author: Michiel Broek , 27-Sep-2004   
      
   service binkp   
   {   
           socket_type     = stream   
           protocol        = tcp   
           wait            = no   
           user            = mbse   
           instances       = 10   
           server          = /home/mbse/bin/mbcico   
           server_args     = -t ibn   
   }   
      
   service fido   
   {   
           socket_type     = stream   
           protocol        = tcp   
           wait            = no   
           user            = mbse   
           instances       = 10   
           server          = /home/mbse/bin/mbcico   
           server_args     = -t ifc   
   }   
      
   service tfido   
   {   
           socket_type     = stream   
           protocol        = tcp   
           wait            = no   
           user            = mbse   
           instances       = 10   
           server          = /home/mbse/bin/mbcico   
           server_args     = -t itn   
   }   
      
   # Telnet to the bbs using mblogin, disabled by default.   
   #   
   service telnet   
   {   
           disable         = no   
           protocol        = tcp   
           instances       = 10   
           flags           = REUSE   
           log_on_failure += USERID   
           socket_type     = stream   
           user            = root   
           server          = /usr/sbin/telnetd   
           server_args     = -L /home/mbse/bin/mblogin   
           wait            = no   
   }   
      
      
   If so then change the 'disable = no'  to 'disable = yes'   
      
   Now this is on the basis that you have installed telnetd !   
      
      
   Vince   
      
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