I'd like to access standard internet services as echo (port 7), discard (9), daytime (13), chargen (19) and others on my Mac OS X machine (running Mac OS X Leopard). If possible, how to enable them?

Telnet is rejected on each of those ports on my machine.

link|improve this question

feedback

1 Answer

up vote 1 down vote accepted

The services you mentioned were part of xinetd, which is not used in Leopard. It was replaced with launchd, and I'm afraid there is no easy way to run those services out of the box.

Getting started with launchd (Apple.com)

Technical Note TN2083 Daemons and Agents (Apple.com)

link|improve this answer
feedback

Your Answer

 
or
required, but never shown

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question.