How to use telnetd

Rahul Jain rahul at schmizz.net
Tue Aug 5 10:05:00 UTC 2008


On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Denys Vlasenko
<vda.linux at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Rahul Jain <rahul at schmizz.net> wrote:
>> For me, telnetd gives the following options:
>>
>> # telnetd --help
>> BusyBox v1.2.2 (2007.03.11-00:56+0000) multi-call binary
>
> Not very recent version.
>
>> Usage: telnetd (inetd mode) [OPTION]
>>
>> Telnetd uses incoming TELNET connections via inetd.
>> Options:
>>        -l LOGIN        exec LOGIN on connect (default /bin/sh)
>>        -f issue_file   Display issue_file instead of /etc/issue
>>
>>
>> The problem is that I cannot recompile busybox, I have to use
>> MontaVista Dev Rocket and so am stuck with the RPM package that is
>> provided by MontaVista. However, I got ssh to work so it is not
>> necessary for me to get telnet to work.
>>
>> Thanks for the help though, I wish I could have compiled busybox in stead. :)
>
> Why you cannot compile busybox? Can I help? Currently there is
> a "How to build static busybox for i486-linux-uclibc" HOWTO
> linked from busybox.net start page:
>
> http://busybox.net/~vda/HOWTO/i486-linux-uclibc/HOWTO.txt
>
> and if you are willing to try it and then adapt it so that
> you end up with "How to build static busybox for armv5"
> document, you will produce a very useful HOWTO and also
> will have means to build busybox (and any other binaries
> you want) for your embedded box.
> --
> vda
>

I cannot compile busybox because I am required to use MontaVista tools
only. Otherwise I would have compiled it.

Rahul Jain



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