Help! Telnet is broken under Ultrix 4.1

[Steven Winikoff]

In <1991Jun27.202802.13556 at Arco.COM> dbgwab at edp130edp.arco.com (Bill Bailey) writes:

>Here's the scoop on your telnet problems. If you look in /etc you will
>see that there is no link to /usr/etc/telnetd. Inetd tries to start
>/etc/telnetd and can't find it. All that you need to do is add a link
>thus : ln -s /usr/etc/telnetd /etc/telnetd.
>That should fix you up.

Actually, while that's a good thought, it wasn't the problem in this
particular case -- although I do thank you for taking the time to help.

In fact, I found the answer myself late last night.  It had to do with
the fact that I'd recently installed a getty replacement (motive: the
ability to do baud detection on carriage returns instead of BREAKs),
and that at the same time I replaced /etc/gettytab with a new version
designed to work with the new getty.

Oops.  I didn't know that telnetd depends on /etc/gettytab.  Turns out
that it does, and that when it doesn't like /etc/gettytab, it dumps
core and dies silently.  Hint to DEC -- this isn't nice.  Either the
man page for telnetd(8) should indicate the dependency, or at least
a proper diagnostic should be issued -- preferably both.

- Steven

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>Bill Bailey <dbgwab at arco.com>
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