Inetd will not start telnetd

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Tue Jun 6 23:47:41 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 06 June 2006 12:53 pm, Fierst, Timothy M 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.

And you need a working library loader, too.  (Did you 
install /lib/ld-linux.so?)

It would be _so_ nice if there was a Linux-building-list we could foist these 
questions off onto...

> -Tim

Rob
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