Subject: Re: Telnet in NetBSD 1.4.2
To: Shane A. Dawalt <sdawalt@millennium.wright.edu>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/02/2000 21:55:05
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:05:53AM -0500, Shane A. Dawalt wrote:
> 
>   I have found an odd problem with telnetd on NetBSD 1.4.2.  It gets
> irritated when connected to by Hummingbird 6.2.0 Telnet.  When I connect
> I get the normal user and password prompts, but then things hang.  I do
> not get a shell prompt nor even the motd text.  From the lastlog I see
> my login, but it also shows that I logged out immediately (which is not
> true).  On the hummingbird side, I get no text beyond the "password:"
> prompt.  The socket remains open because I do not receive a disconnect
> [...]

Try to start telnetd with the '-k' option. You have to specify this in
/etc/inetd.conf and restart inetd.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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