>
> > can anyone PLEASE help me why advised patch doesn't work instead of
> > repeating this off topic?
>
> You mentioned you were using 1.5.4_ALPHA, but that was already patched.
> There is no strcpy line to patch; it was changed to use output_data().
>
> I assume this core file was caused by something else. I may have missed an

looks like that. funny i have to read >10 mails about how bad is telnet
etc.etc. until i've got your response.

> earlier email on this subject, but what did a gdb backtrace of it show?

sorry could you tell me what's the command. i have no experience using gdb

(core file is kept)


>
> Also, what does "ident /usr/libexec/telnetd" show?

/usr/libexec/telnetd:
     $NetBSD: crt0.c,v 1.11 2000/06/14 22:52:49 cgd Exp $
     $NetBSD: authenc.c,v 1.6.4.2 2001/07/29 04:12:51 jhawk Exp $
     $NetBSD: global.c,v 1.7 1997/10/08 08:45:10 mrg Exp $
     $NetBSD: slc.c,v 1.8 1998/08/10 02:57:24 perry Exp $
     $NetBSD: state.c,v 1.11.12.3 2001/07/29 04:13:02 jhawk Exp $
     $NetBSD: sys_term.c,v 1.18.4.3 2001/07/29 04:13:05 jhawk Exp $
     $NetBSD: telnetd.c,v 1.20.4.2 2001/07/29 04:13:09 jhawk Exp $
     $NetBSD: termstat.c,v 1.6.12.3 2001/08/16 17:09:05 tv Exp $
     $NetBSD: utility.c,v 1.13.4.3 2001/07/29 04:13:16 jhawk Exp $