[lug] Re: Telnet-ing

[D. Stimits]

Peter Hutnick wrote:

> SoloCDM said:
>
>
> >Trying XXX.XXX.XX.X...
> >'var': unknown argument ('environ ?' for help).
>
>
> Are you able to log in?  (As a non-root user with a valid shell.)
>
> The error sounds like a config file with a spurious space or something.  I
> don't use telnet or Mandrake, so it is hard for me to be more specific.

I'd agree on that, sounds like the config is wrong. Possibly aggravated 
by some missing installation setup, the var might refer to a /var/ 
subdirectory. Assuming Mandrake is the same as RH here, there should be 
a /etc/rc.d/init.d/ subdirectory, and the xinetd init script there. This 
script should in turn allow root to manually cd there, and run "./xinetd 
start", "./xinetd stop", "./xinetd status", and "./xinetd restart". Try 
this by hand, see what it says; at the same time, watch 
/var/log/messages with "tail -f /var/log/messages". If var keeps popping 
up, perhaps it is talking about /var/lock/ files and subdirectories not 
being there to do some kind of locking on.

D. Stimits, stimits AT attbi DOT com