Telnetd not working

[Jakob Engblom]

> In both cases, telnetd runs, and according to netstat does 
> enter into some
> form of communication (it has a communications channel open 
> from port 23 to
> some port on the client).  But the telnet client reports 
> "connection closed
> by foreign host" every time I try to connect.
> 
> Any idea of what I am doing wrong here? Any known issues with getting
> telnetd to work? It is compiled to work without inetd, so 
> that should not be
> the issue.

The problem was a misconfigured system on my ramdisk image. Probably not
news to anyone experienced with Linux & Busybox,  but I document it here
anyways for googlers to find if they have the same problem: 

In order to use telnetd in busybox:

* The linux kernel used as to support UNIX98 PTYs
* Busybox has to be compiled to use UNIX98 PTYs on devpts
* There has to be a file /dev/ptmx (type C, major 5, minor 2)
* There has to be a directory /dev/pts

That solved it for me. 

Best regards,

/jakob

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