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Joao Heleno
Asked: 2010-06-18 03:41:53 +0800 CST

Telnet session - can't run commands

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I have 2 VMs running CentOS 5.0 and I configured telnet on both of them.

I can telnet from one to another... but when I type ls or cd at the prompt I get a message like this

-bash: ls: command not found

Please advise. Thanks

centos command-line-interface telnet

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  1. Best Answer

    Sounds like you've got nothing in your path. Try /bin/ls and see if that works. If it is, you'll have to add common directories to your $PATH, or execute your .bashrc file.

    Also, you really shouldn't be using telnet, as it's hugely insecure. You'd be much better of installing SSH (or enabling it, it's often installed by default).

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