Your subject line sounds a lot like something that just happened for me:
Note: *this is not a complaint or cry for help -- just potentially
useful information*
After upgrading to potato, I tried some of the various telnet offerings:
regular, SSL, and '98. (The latter two sound suspiciously similar.)
Anyway, somewhere along the line one deleted my /usr/bin/telnet file.
Now, regardless of which is installed, I only get a
/usr/bin/telnet.nossl file. That means that there's *no telnet* command
available, but you can use "telnet.nossl" if you want. (I also thought that
was an interesting choice of filename when the SSL version is
installed.) Well, I currently have the SSL flavor installed and a
symlink in /usr/local/bin/telnet to /usr/bin/telnet.nossl. Using that,
it seems that there *is* ssl, contrary to this name ^^^^^.
Another variation between them all is the name of the telnet daemon.
Some install /usr/sbin/in.telnetd.nossl (currently installed -
telnetd-SSL), some leave off the "in." prefix, and some leave off the
".nossl" suffix, I think. This wouldn't be such a big deal, except none
of them updates the entry in /etc/inetd.conf. That must be done by
hand, and a -HUP sent to the inetd process to make it use the new
telnetd. Otherwise, you get "Connection closed by foreign host" when
inetd can't find the telnetd file.
I thought all this was especially interesting since I have another
potato machine that hasn't had any of these problems. Maybe it's just
not completely updated, or maybe I did something wrong this time.
Hope this helps someone,
Jesse
On 06/16/99 at 12:27:07, Dr. Karl-Wilhelm Schulte wrote concerning "Re:
ftp/telnet fails since upgrade":
> On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 12:03:15PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
> > > >longer ftp or telnet to my machine. ("421 Service not available, remote
> > > >server has closed connection", and "Connection closed by foreign host").
>
> Have you noticed, that some net services have now their own debs in the
> net section? They used to be in netbase under hamm, but are no more.
>
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