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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howland.erols.net!psinntp!pubxfer.news.psi.net!dan.emsphone.com!dan From: Dan Nelson <dan@dan.emsphone.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Interesting Telnet Problem Date: 12 Jul 1997 02:25:45 GMT Organization: Executive Marketing Services, Inc. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5q6pv9$p5$1@client2.news.psi.net> References: <868619581.373625@wicca.hi-line.net> Reply-To: dnelson@emsphone.com (Dan Nelson) NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.67.51.101 X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970622; i386 FreeBSD 2.2-970701-RELENG] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44287 Eric Beyer <beyer%/etc/HOSTNAME> wrote: > I recently have just installed FreeBSD 2.2.1 on my home system. I have > everything working just fine except for one little glitch that I just cannot > figure out. Ok here it goes, I use PPP to connect to the Linux Server I run > at the University, anyway I can make the connection just fine but I cannot > telnet to any machine on that network, I can FTP, use the WEB, sendmail, > etc... to it but when I telnet I just get: > > #telnet isp.running-linux.edu > Trying 234.242.24.242... > Connected to isp.running-linux.edu > Escape character is '^]'. > Connection closed by foreign host. <--- I dont even get a login prompt. This is a bug in (at least Red Hat 4.0/2.0.27) Linux's login binary. It exits immediately (and probably would dump core if it weren't setuid) when it sees a terminal type not in /etc/termcap. The workaround (which you'll end up doing anyways) is to add cons25 to the machine's /etc/termcap file. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com