i've installed lots of pkgs via rpm, and have occasionally run
across this.

# rpm -q -i -p /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/telnet-server-0.17-10.i386.rpm

shows . . .

	install date: (not installed)

# rpm -i /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/telnet-server-0.17-10.i386.rpm

gives . . .

package telnet-server-0.17-10 is already installed

don't quite understand.

however . . .

after installing (i guess) telnet-server and xinetd, and starting
xinetd from /etc/init.d, telnet works ok.  thank you very much.

now i need to get rcp to work.  all i get now is "connection
refused".

thanks for all the responses.  i did a lot of fumbling, but am
happy to have some connectivity.  if i can get rcp to work i'll
be home free, EXCEPT, of course, for the security issues.  will
look into ssh as soon as things settle down.

re the netgear firewall, i assume it's up and running.  haven't
done anything to disable it.  how do i check?

tia,
dan