topic Re: Telnet ioctl error in Operating System - HP-UX

Telnet ioctl error

dipesh_2 — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 00:45:43 GMT

Hi all,

I am trying to connect through telnet to my sun server. But i am receiving an error like this,
"telnetd: ioctl I_PUSH ptem: Inappropriate ioctl for device"
.
Connection to host lost.

what should i do to resolve this issue.

Re: Telnet ioctl error

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 01:52:21 GMT

Shalom,

Check the servers error log.

/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log on hpux.

Kind of wondering why the question is here? Are sun forums so bad?

If hpux is involved here at all, make sure you have enough possible terminal devices in the kernel nstrel defaults to 60 and you may need more.

SEP

Re: Telnet ioctl error

Yogeeraj_1 — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 02:00:32 GMT

hi,

According to the SUN website (http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/802-2022/6i610sjc9?a=view), the error message:
"Inappropriate ioctl for device"

Cause:
This is a programming error.

Action:
Ask the program's author to fix this condition. The program needs to be changed so it employs a device driver that can accept special character device controls.

Technical Notes The ioctl() system call was given as an argument for a file that is not a special character device. This message replaces the traditional but puzzling "Not a typewriter" message.

The symbolic name for this error is ENOTTY, errno=25.

Can you try to login from another host?

maybe telnet access on the Sun server is disabled.

hope this helps!

kind regards
yogeeraj

Re: Telnet ioctl error

dipesh_2 — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:41:14 GMT

problem resolve