Re: Telnetd looks DOA

[Archai Valkryn]

At 10:47 AM 8/12/02 +0300, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> > Trying to run telnetd from inetd with arguments of telnetd and -h, which
> > had worked with 1.3.2g (if screwily), produced precisely
> > nothing.
>
> Could you be more specific, please? What was exactly the invocation
> line in your inetd.conf? Did not the daemon respond to connections?
> Or did it fail in some other way?

The exact line is:
telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/telnetd telnetd -h
...which, aside from the path, is the exact line that successfully started 
telnetd from 1.3.2g.
This daemon did not respond to connections.

> >  Executing telnetd by hand with the -debug option produced
> > "telnetd: unknown command line option: d" and executing it manually just
> > plain produced nothing.
>
> Telnetd can not be run manually from the command line. -debug is an
> error anyway, the long options must start with double-dash.

From the manpage: "Synopsis: telnetd ... [-debug [port]]
Running by hand is what the debug option is for: "The -debug option may be 
used to start up telnetd manually, instead of through inetd(8)."
Note the single dash.  -edebug is also listed for use with a single 
dash.  Either way, it still does nothing.  I've run telnetd successfully 
from the command line previous to this installation with the -debug 
option.  Each run should be good for one connection.

Thanks,
   -av