Date: Tue, 13 Jun 95 12:22:08 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: echet@coil.com (Eric Chet) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.0.5R && telnet? Message-ID: <9506131822.AA04874@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199506131316.JAA08549@bronze.coil.com> from "Eric Chet" at Jun 13, 95 09:16:56 am
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> I just installed 2.0.5R && X-Windows. Everything looks great, I > would like to thank the core team for all there hard work. > > I'm useing user process ppp. I connect to my ISP with out any problems. > I can FTP anywhere without any problems. When I try to telnet I just get > an error. >open hostname, the returned error is > "telnet: tcp/telnet: unknown service" what am I over looking? This is the error message you will get from getservbyname( "telnet", "tcp") returning NULL as a result of your /etc/services file: o not being there o not containing the line telnet 23/tcp o not being readable by your user ID/group ID If your telnet is (incorrectly) suid some user, or if you are a member of the group that owns the /etc/services file and permissions are turned off for the group, or if world read permissions aren't there for the file or for the /etc directory, you will have this problem. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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