Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:39:40 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Joshua Fielden <shag@concentric.net> Cc: Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net>, freebsd-questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: telnetting to RedHat4 Message-ID: <19970618103940.45824@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <33A7C076.D3E27042@concentric.net>; from "Joshua Fielden" on Wed, Jun 18, 1997 at 05:03:18AM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970617174622.1645A-100000@aak.anchorage.net> <33A7C076.D3E27042@concentric.net>
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In the last episode (Jun 18), Joshua Fielden said: > Steve Howe wrote: > > i can get a telnet login prompt to my ISPs server (RedHat4.0) with > > an Xterm, but not from a ttyv? ... > > > > how does this make sense? > > > > from a ttyv?, i get "Connection closed by foreign host". i can > > however get a prompt from a ttyv? when trying their nameserver. > > What worked for me in the same situation, <from my BSD Box local, OR > telnetting to a friend's BSD box then telnetting to RedHat, *brand-new* > install> was to set my term type to <kinda arbitrary> vt100. i.e: NOT > cons25. If this does work, please post the finale, as I am interested to > see. There's something in their /bin/login that dies when your terminal type is not in /etc/termcap. My solution was to copy the cons25 termcap entries over to the Linux machine. A better solution would be to fix RedHat's /bin/login. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com
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