[ILUG] Telnet problem

[Philip Reynolds]

Smith, Alan's [alan.smith at sap.com] 53 lines of dribble included:
:>As a follow-up to earlier post, I have found the following line in
:>/var/log/auth.log :
:>
:>Sep 14 12:14:31 lxdub01 in.telnetd^M[720]: error: cannot execute
:>/usr/sbin/in.telnetd^M: No such file or directory
:>
:>Now /usr/sbin/in.telnetd does exist, but where does the ^M come from. It
:>seems like it thinks the ^M is part of the filename. I even tried renaming
:>/usr/sbin/in.telnetd to /usr/sbin/in.telnetd^M but in the log file it then
:>had ..../in.telnetd^M^M  .  I'm at a loss here - help....please ?!?

Try having a look at /etc/inetd.conf
dos2unix /etc/inetd.conf 
should work, or possibly 

vim /etc/inetd.conf
:%s/<PRESS CONTROL V><PRESS CONTROL M>//
To search and replace all of the ^M's with nothing.
Hope this helps,
Phil.