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Re: inetd on win95


On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 10:20:51PM +0100, joerg eichhorn wrote:
>i have got the same problems, as described in the orginial mail by Raphael.
>
>winver: Win9X Ver 4.90 build 73010104 (aut.: it is winme)
>cygver: Cygwin DLL version info:
>        dll major: 1003
>        dll minor: 3
>        dll epoch: 19
>	build date: Wed Sep 12 23:54:31 EDT 2001
>
>but what i found the following:
>this won't work:
><snip>
>foo@bar ~
>$ /usr/sbin/new/in.telnetd
>/usr/sbin/new/in.telnetd: getpeername: The descriptor is a file, not a 
>socket

This is correct.  in.telnetd expects that it's standard file descriptors
should be sockets.

>foo@bar ~
>$
></snip>
>
>but the following worked fine:

>foo@bar ~
>$ /usr/sbin/new/in.telnetd -debug

And, the -debug option for in.telnetd makes in.telnetd open its own
socket descriptors for stdin/stdout/stderr.  It's used for debugging
(oddly enough).


>wrapping the call into a shellscript named in.telnetd didn't work :-(
>
>so how to understand that behavior?

Everything working as normal?

cgf

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