Bash Error – ‘telnet: command not found’: Fixing Guide

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I have the following services running:

sshd            0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
syslog          0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
tcsd            0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
vsftpd          0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
xinetd          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

xinetd based services:
        chargen-dgram:  off
        chargen-stream: off
        daytime-dgram:  off
        daytime-stream: off
        discard-dgram:  off
        discard-stream: off
        echo-dgram:     off
        echo-stream:    off
        tcpmux-server:  off
        telnet:         on
        time-dgram:     off
        time-stream:    off

why i still got "-bash: telnet: command not found " error?

Thanks

Best Answer

The RHEL/CentOS 5.4 telnet client is installed at /usr/kerberos/bin/telnet. Your $PATH variable thus needs /usr/kerberos/bin listed. (Preferably before /usr/bin) If for some reason you don't have that file installed, it's part of the package krb5-workstation. Installing that package manually or via YUM should give you what you need.

You can check quick with which telnet to see if it's found anywhere in your path. echo $PATH to see what directories are being checked, and rpm -q krb5-workstation to see if you have the package installed.

--Christopher Karel

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I don't think a command or shell builtin for this exists, as it's a trivial subset of what the Bourne shell for loop is designed for and implementing a command like this yourself is therefore quite simple.

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This iterates ten times executing command each time - it can be a pipe or a series of commands separated by ; or &&. You can use the $i variable to know which iteration you're in.

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Example:

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