Cannot telnet into new HPUX system

[Chris Garcia_1]

I'm quite new to HPUX, just got this new system. When I try to telnet into it I get the following message:

devastator% telnet host
Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx...
Connected to host.domain.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.

In /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log I see the following error: telnetd[3056]: telnet pty allocation failed

Can anyone shed some light on this situation?

[Steven E. Protter]

insf -e

You need to at the very least initialize your pty devices.

There may in fact be other problems.

SEP

[Steven E. Protter]

I should have elaborated.

Are there other users connected to that system?

Answer with ps -ef | grep telnetd

You might not have enough device files set up.

If so, I'm sure myself or others can dig up the procedure for upping that figure.

I think its my first post though.

If you are new, please consider assigning points to answers that help AND

Let us know if you solved your problem. So many people just leave us hanging.'


:-)

SEP

[Sachin Patel]

Hi Agree with steven. Don't left us hanging. if your problme is fixed let us know.

> telnet pty allocation failed
indicates that something is wrong with pty so

run this
# cd /
# rm /dev/pty/*
# rm /dev/pts/*
# insf -e
# cd /dev
# insf -d telm
# insf -d tels

You might have to login to console if you can't rlogin.


Sachin

[Chris Garcia_1]

The insf -e seemed to do the trick! Does this need to be run for all new HPUX clients?

--Chris

[Tim Sanko]

Not always, but quite often.


Tim

[Chris Garcia_1]

Ok thanks, good to know.

--Chris

[Michael Tully]

This is what we do for every new system. We change the kernel so that it has these entries.

npty 1024
nstrpty 1024
nstrtel 1024

Generate new kernel. Naturally include any other changes you wish to do at this time.

Reboot and run these commands.

# cd /dev
# insf ???d pty ???s 1024 ???e ???v
# insf ???d ptm ???s 1024 ???e ???v
# insf -d telm ???s 1024 ???e ???v
# insf -d tels ???s 1024 ???e -v