On 01/30/2013 03:17 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 01/29/2013 10:44 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
I just installed the f17 rpm on the f18 system and it fails in the same way.
I never asked... Does telnetd work on F17 or would we have to go back further to find a working version?
Yes, it works fine on F17.
Sorry, not looking for a replacement.
You don't need to apologize to me. It was just a suggestion. The older system you're trying to support almost certainly has rsh, and as far as I know, rsh is a simpler protocol, which makes it more secure than telnet in some respects and less prone to weird problems like this one.
They actually wrote a specialized telnet client on the Unix side which needs to be supported. The client side is automated with no human input. This is a hack written over 15 years ago when the server side was a mainframe running a proprietary OS. Instead of rewriting things to support new uses they continued down the path they knew.
Yes, we have PHB's in Taiwan too. :-(
Their management would probably prefer they used RHEL or CentOS anyway.
Which is probably sound advice. :)
:-)