Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!daily-planet.concordia.ca!trm!smw From: smw@trm.concordia.ca ( Steven Winikoff ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Help! Telnet is broken under Ultrix 4.1 Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 91 14:49:44 GMT References: <1991Jun27.202802.13556@Arco.COM> Sender: usenet@daily-planet.concordia.ca Lines: 35 In <1991Jun27.202802.13556@Arco.COM> dbgwab@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 >-- >Bill Bailey >Voice : (214) 754-6779 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven Winikoff smw@alcor.concordia.ca Software Analyst Dept. of Computing Services Concordia University voice: (514) 848-7619 Montreal, Quebec, Canada (10:00-18:00 EST)