telnetd: Cannot push ptem: Not a typewriter

[Lee Higginbotham]

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

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi Lee,

You could check this link:

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

HTH,

Gideon

[Lee Higginbotham]

SEP,

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

Thanks,

Lee

[Lee Higginbotham]

All,

Thanks for your input.

Problem fixed with the following:

insf -e

It rebuilt the telnet tables.

Thanks again,

Lee

[Lee Higginbotham]

insf -e cleared up the issue.

[winkshi]

so great!
learnt so much!

thax!