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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!news.clark.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!buckwild From: buckwild@u.washington.edu (Mark Tamola) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: How to recompile telnet, etc. for use with a "term" connection? Date: 13 Nov 1994 11:02:51 GMT Organization: University of Washington Lines: 41 Message-ID: <3a4ror$9de@nntp1.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: saul4.u.washington.edu Dear sirs, I know that instructions for doing this are laid out within the README's of the distribution, but some small details about things are still a little unclear to me. Anyway, my dilemma is as follows: (By the way, I am using NetBSD-1.0_BETA with term-2.2.5...) I just recompiled telnet on my system, just like the README.porting file told me to. I added -include /usr/local/include/termnet.h to the CFLAGS, and added -ltermnet before any other libraries to link it to. The compiling went without any errors or warnings. I then renamed the resulting binary as "telnet.term", and tried it out. I did a "./telnet.term saul4.u.washington.edu", and it would respond with "Trying 131.252.10 .101...", and it would just sit there for about two minutes, finally exiting saying "telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Bad file descriptor". Thus, it got the right IP address, but just couldn't connect due to this error. I then tried other hosts, and it did get their IP addresses correct, but it would still exit with the same error. I then tried "telnet.term" with the IP addresses directly, but still no go. I know it is accessing the term line correctly (I think), but I feel that I missed to configure something correctly. Is there anything that I missed? For example, do I also have to edit some of the system network config file like /etc/hosts, or netstart or anything like that? What about any other commands to set up the network? As you can tell, I am not that experienced in setting up the network part of NetBSD, but would like to learn. And yes, I have read the sysadmin book by Nemeth, Snyder, and Seebass. Any help/suggestions/tips would be enormously appreciated. Sincerely, Mark Steven de Sagun Tamola buckwild@u.washington.edu