On 01/30/2013 03:17 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 01/29/2013 10:44 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> I just installed the f17 rpm on the f18 system and it fails in the >> same way. > > I never asked... Does telnetd work on F17 or would we have to go back further to find a working version? Yes, it works fine on F17. > >> Sorry, not looking for a replacement. > > You don't need to apologize to me. It was just a suggestion. The older system you're trying to support almost certainly has rsh, and as far as I know, rsh is a simpler protocol, which makes it more secure than telnet in some respects and less prone to weird problems like this one. They actually wrote a specialized telnet client on the Unix side which needs to be supported. The client side is automated with no human input. This is a hack written over 15 years ago when the server side was a mainframe running a proprietary OS. Instead of rewriting things to support new uses they continued down the path they knew. Yes, we have PHB's in Taiwan too. :-( > >> Their >> management would probably prefer they used RHEL or CentOS anyway. > > Which is probably sound advice. :) :-) -- 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
