rlinetd command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

rlinetd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rlinetd: command not found

Solutions to rlinetd: command not found

How To Fix rlinetd: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu rlinetd is provided by rlinetd package.

rlinetd is:

rlinetd is designed to replace the BSD inetd. Feature-wise, it is a proper superset of the BSD inetd, including rpc support and both udp and tcp services. In addition, it supports a number of resource limiting features, including full resource limits a la setrlimit(2), renicing, chroot and limited per-service instances. To round out the features stolen from xinetd, it also supports binding to individual interfaces on request, and configurable logging.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install rlinetd

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install rlinetd.

sudo apt -y install rlinetd

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install rlinetd

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix rlinetd command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.