Inetd will not start telnetd

Glenn L. McGrath bug1 at ihug.co.nz
Tue Jun 6 20:37:03 UTC 2006


On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 11:53:40 -0500
"Fierst, Timothy M" <timothy.m.fierst at lmco.com> wrote:

> Yeah, I tried different combinations of etc/services, all with the line
> "telnet 23/tcp" in them.  Made sure the file was readable to all.
> 
> I think the real problem is with my dynamic libnsss_* libraries.  If my
> inetd.conf file changes from: 
> 
> telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/telnetd telnetd
> 
> to:
> 
> 23 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/telnetd telnetd
> 
> everything works fine.  I have all my libnsss_* files in my /lib/
> directory, but maybe there is more to it than that.  My busybox is
> linked statically but with glibc, the libnsss_* can only be linked
> dynamically.

Do you have an /etc/services file?

/etc/services is used to resolve port names to numbers.


Glenn



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