[BusyBox] telnetd crashing

Luke Albers gtg940r at mail.gatech.edu
Tue Sep 7 18:19:20 UTC 2004


 
> 
> I had this problem to and found that it has to do with devfs and kernel settings 
> for "Unix98 PTY"
> 
> My working combination is
> 	CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
> 	CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y
> 	CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=y
> in the kernel and
> 
> PTXCONF_BB_CONFIG_FEATURE_DEVFS=y
> PTXCONF_BB_CONFIG_FEATURE_DEVPTS=y
> 
> in busybox.
> 
> I did not find any time to provide a patch of busybox that at least does a nice 
> error message and dies greatfully.
> 
> BTW I have busybox telnetd compiled with
> 	PTXCONF_BB_CONFIG_TELNETD=y
> 	PTXCONF_BB_CONFIG_FEATURE_TELNETD_INETD=y
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> --
> Steven

thanks, that did it.  also, I had trouble figuring out that I needed to
mount /dev/pts

thanks again for your help

-- 
Luke Albers
Georgia Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering
Email:  gtg940r at mail.gatech.edu
Web:    www.lukealbers.com





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