[BusyBox] any reason why telnetd rejects and vanishes?

Chun Kit Edwin Lau edwin at micronedge.com
Mon Apr 11 13:20:40 UTC 2005


I have similar problem before.  Did you enable PTY support in kernel and
did you have correct passwd setup etc?  If not, I have no idea what
happen to you.

Edwin Lau


On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 14:48 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   under a new 2.6 kernel-based build, i'm testing various parts of my
> embedded system that worked just fine under 2.4 (busybox 1.00 in both
> cases).
> 
>   part of the boot of the embedded system is to start telnetd, which
> starts just fine as it always has.  however, the instant i try to
> telnet to the embedded system, i get a connection and *immediate* drop
> from the system, at which telnetd is no longer running.
> 
>   this has always worked before.  is there something about BB's
> telnetd related to a 2.6 kernel that would cause this?  or maybe some
> simpler explanation?  pinging both ways works fine, nothing else seems
> amiss.
> 
> rday
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