On 01/30/2013 10:00 AM, jdow wrote: > On 2013/01/29 17:49, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 01/30/2013 09:37 AM, jdow wrote: >>> >>> On 2013/01/29 06:23, Ed Greshko wrote: >>>> On 01/29/2013 10:19 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: >>>>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:46:58AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >>>>>> First.... No need to bring up the ssh v.s. telnet stuff..... Has >>>>>> anyone configured telnetd for use on F18? Running 64 bit....but >>>>>> this shouldn't make a difference. Anyway, I did the normal >>>>>> procedure..... >>>>> I just did, and I didn't add -D, but I did change "disabled = yes" to >>>>> "no" in the telnet xinetd config. And it just worked. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks for testing. >>>> >>>> That is what I did too.... And it fails as described. I'm stumped. >>>> >>> SELinux getting in the way in one of the two cases? >>> >> >> No, I eliminated that early on.... Another manifestation of the problem is >> "garbled" output.... >> >> Connected to f18x. Escape character is '^]'. Fedora release 18 (Spherical >> Cow) Kernel 3.7.4-204.fc18.x86_64 on an x86_64 (3) 18x login: assword: ast >> login: Wed Jan 30 08:27:30 on :0 ]0;egreshko@f18x:~[?1034hegreshko@f18x ~]$ >> [0mDesktop Documents Downloads Music Pictures Public Templates Videos > > Erm, you said it's a very old machine. I get the impression it is using > telnet to get to the Linux machine. What you're seeing looks for all the > world like what people used to see on RS232 terminals when flow control > was disabled. Is flow control disabled somewhere in your network path > between the machines? If it is a very slow machine may get hit with data > faster than it can parse it. > The justification for needing a working telnet server is that the client side is old. The problem was discovered and occurs on F18 itself with "telnet localhost". -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. -- Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
