Problem with telnetd.

[pmcmicha]

I am recieving an error message when attempting to telnet 0 or localhost
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:/home/noone> telnet 0
Trying 0.0.0.0...
Connected to 0.
Escape character is '^]'.


SCO UnixWare 7.1.1 () ()

telnetd: : No such file or directory.
Connection closed by foreign host.
:/home/noone>
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Checked /etc/hosts; /usr/sbin/ifconfig -a; netstat -r: all are configured corretly
-/usr/sbin/ifconfig reports loopback up and running

Checked hosts.allow and hosts.deny: configured correctly
Checked interface file for loopback: found: correct
Checked /usr/sbin/in.telnetd and in.tcpd: correct
-verified files bit for bit
Checked to see if inetd was running via ps -ef|grep inetd|grep -v grep: running
Checked for /dev/loopback: found: correct
Checked for /usr/bin/telnet: found: correct
Checked /var/adm/inet.start: correct
Verified /etc/inet/inet.conf: correct
Verified /etc/default/login: correct
osmlog and fsck.log files are not showing any errors
Verified term files: correct
You can ftp to the server and from the server
All file systems are mounted and ready to go

I have checked SCO's website for their 'Debugging telnet' documentation and
proceeded to run through this, everything checked out.

Does anyone have any ideas about this?

Thanks in advance
pmcmicha

 

[KenCunningham]

Just a shot in the dark: Are you sure the home directory exists on the server?

 

[pmcmicha]

Both the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files exist on the server and they are correct. You can login just fine from the console, but when attempting to telnet to another user from the console or from a remote terminal, you get the error above. It doesn't even let you try and login to another user.

 

[stanhubble]

i would suggest checking the startup line in inet.conf for the telnetd command.

i'm not that familiar with unixware but openserver has:
telnet stream tcp nowait NOLUID /etc/telnetd telnetd

HTH
stan

 

[pmcmicha]

Stan,

Thanks for the suggestion, but this has already been checked as well. It is in my original post.

 

[pmcmicha]

Thanks for your suggestions everyone, but upon further research, found that there are missing directories due the the server being slammed multiple times on earlier last week. This is appears to be the root cause of the problem and the server is going to be re-configured.