Telnet session - can't run commands

Question

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

Answer 1

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).