[5732] in bugtraq
Re: in.telnetd bug (linux)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Murray)
Wed Dec 3 10:08:58 1997
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 11:08:42 -0800
Reply-To: Ryan Murray <rmurray@LIGHTSPEED.BC.CA>
From: Ryan Murray <rmurray@LIGHTSPEED.BC.CA>
X-To: Patrick <patrick@bootp-150-79.bootp.virginia.edu>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.971201204828.14801A-100000@bootp-150-79.bootp.virginia.edu>
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Patrick wrote:
> Re-installing the newest netkit on a broken system doesn't fix the bug,
> nor does installing the same netkit (even the same binary) on a working
NetKit's documentation clearly indicates this problem in the
netkit-telnet-0.10/BUGS file:
- crashes in ncurses if the terminal type is undefined,
with some versions of ncurses.
> Installing the terminfo.tgz package fixes the bug. After some
> investigation, I found that it's more specifically the existence of the
> /usr/lib/terminfo/u/unknown file that fixes the bug.
Hrm...I have /usr/lib/terminfo/u/unknown. I checked the code for telnetd,
and it actually assumes "network" and not unknown, which I don't have.
Adding a link from "network" to dumb didn't solve the problem. telnetd
simply dies before outputting anything (no core, because processes started
from inetd aren't allowed to core, of course)
