topic Re: telnetd: Cannot push ptem: Not a typewriter in Operating System - HP-UX

telnetd: Cannot push ptem: Not a typewriter

Lee Higginbotham — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:56:42 GMT

Good afternoon,

When my remote users attempt to sign into the system (HP UX 11.i) they receive the following message: telnetd: Cannot push ptem: Not a typewriter. We just rebooted the system this morning, due to another telnet issue.

Anyone have any idea what is causing this and then of course ultimately, how to fix it?

Thanks,
Lee

Re: telnetd: Cannot push ptem: Not a typewriter

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:02:40 GMT

This is usally due to a lack of TERM variable being set up.

try this:

TERM=vt100
export TERM

You may need to try several TERM types to get a proper connection.

vt200

things like that.

You may need to explicitly run the users .profile file to get a full environment to get good operation with telnet.

SEP

Re: telnetd: Cannot push ptem: Not a typewriter

G. Vrijhoeven — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:03:27 GMT

Hi Lee,

You could check this link:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=35433

HTH,

Gideon

Re: telnetd: Cannot push ptem: Not a typewriter

Lee Higginbotham — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:19:26 GMT

SEP,

Currently using vt220 and using MKT (Koala Term) and EWAN as the terminal emulator.

Thanks,

Lee

Re: telnetd: Cannot push ptem: Not a typewriter

Lee Higginbotham — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:23:54 GMT

All,

Thanks for your input.

Problem fixed with the following:

insf -e

It rebuilt the telnet tables.

Thanks again,

Lee

Re: telnetd: Cannot push ptem: Not a typewriter

Lee Higginbotham — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:31:23 GMT

insf -e cleared up the issue.

Re: telnetd: Cannot push ptem: Not a typewriter

winkshi — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 02:52:06 GMT

so great!
learnt so much!

thax!