Re: Telnetd looks DOA

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

> Trying to run telnetd from inetd with arguments of telnetd and -h, which 
> had worked with 1.3.2g (if screwily), produced precisely 
> nothing.

Could you be more specific, please? What was exactly the invocation
line in your inetd.conf? Did not the daemon respond to connections?
Or did it fail in some other way?

>  Executing telnetd by hand with the -debug option produced 
> "telnetd: unknown command line option: d" and executing it manually just 
> plain produced nothing.

Telnetd can not be run manually from the command line. -debug is an
error anyway, the long options must start with double-dash.

Regards,
Sergey