From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 28 4:16:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from edwin.mounet.com (edwin.mounet.com [216.145.76.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 057A937B406 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 04:16:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hornback@wireco.net) Received: (qmail 13538 invoked by uid 0); 28 Jun 2001 11:14:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tomcat) (216.145.84.42) by mounet.com with SMTP; 28 Jun 2001 11:14:38 -0000 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: RE: Performance issues and a funky telnetd error... Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 07:16:25 -0400 Message-ID: <000f01c0ffc3$c4db8400$0e00000a@tomcat> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <000a01c0ffaf$ea325260$0e00000a@tomcat> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Solution to my telnetd problem below... (and yes, I realize it's bad form to follow up one's own post with a reply, but I figured the world might wanna know that I fixed it myself! --- A.) > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Andrew C. > Hornback > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 4:54 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Performance issues and a funky telnetd error... > > > Good morning everyone... > > With some help from one of the regulars on here, I've been > able to get the > new addition to my "fleet" up and running with FreeBSD. It's a laptop > (WinBook FX, Pentium 133, 32 Megs of RAM) and should fit the bill for my > needs. My problems are as follows: [slow GUI reponse snipped] > 2) This is more of a networking issue, but I'm hoping > someone could help me > resolve this. I've tried telnetting to the machine, and I always get the > following error: > > telnetd: All network ports in use. > > I'd really like to be able to telnet into my notebook (as > crazy as that may > seem to some people). Any pointers on fixing this would be great. As far > as I can remember, I did not set the machine up with ultra tight security > from the standard install, so this should not be a problem. Okay, so I fixed the problem. Seems that in my zealous attempt to clean everything out of the kernel configuration file, I accidently ax'd the "pseudo-device pty" line. Without this line, it seems like the telnet daemon thinks that everything on the machine is busy, and refuses a connection. Now, after solving this problem, I'm wondering something... what if a machine didn't need to support telnet connections? Would this be a way of securing the machine even further? What other services require the pty device? I might be out in left field here, or maybe I'm onto something... --- Andy "Powered by cheap generic Root Beer..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message