HP-UX 11i: telnetd not starting!!

[Louis A. Lopez]

One of my six DuperDome partitions is not starting up the "telnetd" process via the /sbin/init.d/inetd scripts.
No errors are reported here but this is what I found within syslog.log:

Jun 9 12:29:04 sysa telnetd[1280]: Fatal error: Telnet device drivers missing: Function is not available.
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and running telnet into this server "sysa" from another system, I get:

root@sysb [/root]
# telnet sysa
Trying...
Connected to sysa.
Escape character is '^]'.
telnetd: Telnet device drivers missing: Function is not available
Local flow control off
Connection closed by foreign host.
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Am I missing patches for these telnet device drivers or are there cfg files I need to be looking at?
Any response would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
-Louis

[Navin Bhat_2]

Try running insf -e

[Steven E. Protter]

If you have recent made changes to the /etc/ioconfig file the device drivers may be missing.


This will fix it:

insf -e
insf -d telm
insf -d tels

Please check these threads:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=72003
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=224238


Regards,

Steve

[R. Sri Ram Kishore_1]

Try out insf -e; this creates the device files required for telnet (among others) on your system.

HTH,
Sri Ram

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

Try this link,

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/search.do?category=c0&mode=id&searchString=UARPAKBRC00011107&searchCrit=allwords&docType=Security&docType=Patch&docType=EngineerNotes&docType=BugReports&docType=Hardware&docType=ReferenceMaterials&docType=ThirdParty&search.x=7&search.y=11

The itrc doc id is UARPAKBRC00011107.

Hope this helps.

Regds