Telnetd broken

[Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R]

On 01/29/2013 01:10 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 01/30/2013 01:37 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
>> On 01/29/2013 06:40 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> On 01/29/2013 10:12 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 03:31:25PM -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
>>>>> The telnet service in Fedora 18 and Rawhide is broken.
>>>>> Here is output from telnet(1) on f18 calling a machine running Rawhide:
>>>> Confirming on F18.
>>>>
>>>> Heh. I bet you're the first person to actually run telnetd in several years.
>>>>
>>> FWIW, this seems to be a different manifestation of the problem that I'm seeing and asking about out the "users" list.  I think you will find that if you add....
>>>
>>> server_args     = -D options
>>>
>>> to the telnet file of xinetd.d the formatting problem will be gone...
>>>
>>>
>> I've done some more testing.  There seems to be a random element to the problem.
>> Sometimes the telnet session will operate normally.  Other times much of the output
>> disappears.
>>
>> I have observed this using various telnet clients on various machines including F18, rawhide,
>> and Scientific Linux.
>>
>> I have not observed this problem telnetting to SCO Unix, Fedora 16, or Scientific Linux.
>>
> So, will you bugzilla or should I?
>
Already did.

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