telnet Issues!!

[Amit Manna_6]

Hi,
I am tying to connect a Linux Server from a HP server I am getting following error.

telnetd: Failed to contact authentication daemon.
Connection closed by foreign host.


For another server I am getting following error:


telnetd: Out of IPC resources.
Connection closed by foreign host.

Can anybody please advice.

[Alzhy]

Can you still get to your Linux box from the Console or from the GUI (if any)?

Chances are your Linux machine is going belly up.

[Steven E. Protter]

ipcs

You may need to increase shmmax shmseg and related kernel parameters

By default Linux does not configure a telnet server.

See that its configured for disable=no in the /etc/xinetd.d directory on the Linux server.

If it needs to be changed, /sbin/service xinetd restart

after the change.

SEP

[Rick Garland]

Based on the info provided, a reboot looks like it is necessary. Do some clean up so you can get some of the resources back.

What is uptime on this system?

[john kingsley]

Have you been able to telnet to the linux server in the past? Since telnet is considered an unsecure service, it is not loaded with most linux default installations. What flavor of linux are you running?