Re: telnet broken

[Alain Magloire]

> 
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:49:02AM +0300, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> > 
> > > I mean inetutils/telnet (not telnetd) is broken on Linux
> > 
> > Strange, I have just tried it on Slackware Linux with netkit telnetd.
> > It worked... Are you specifying any special options to telnet or
> > telnetd?
> 
> Ugh, I surely did a loosy job this time.  I apologize.
> 
> It turns out that the Debian netkit telnetd was completely broken, which I
> upgraded a few hours ago.  Another upgrade today fixed that.
> 
> However, inetutils telnetd on the standard port doesn't work for me:
> address@hidden:~/x/inetutils/telnetd$ telnet localhost
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1).
> Escape character is '^]'.
> telnetd: /dev/ttyp0: Permission denied.
> 
> Linux 2.4.0-test9 (ulysses) (ttyp0)
> 
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> Note the "telnetd: /dev/ttyp0: Permission denied.".  It works fine when
> started as "telnetd -debug 8001" on port 8001.
> 
> Ok, so much for the Linux situation.  The Hurd situation will have to be
> debugged seperately.

Strange, telnet and telnetd works fine for me on GNU/Linux.
What is your inetd.conf line to start telnetd?

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alain