telnet

[Chakravarthi]

Hi all,

i cannot terminate telnet session to the remote machine, it just hangs and also it doesnt allow any more new telnet sessions.

which process on the remote machine is suppose to handle this kind of satuation?

if you have any docuements on How telnet works please share it with me.

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

it the remote machine is redhat:
then issuing command
service xinetd restart will restart (among others) also the telnet server.
Anyway the executable's name is in.telnetd
so issuing
ps -ef |grep in.telnetd should reveal the PID

[Gopi Sekar]

This problem likely happens if you have started a daemon from the telnet session which does not release the current tty and continues to use it as its default tty.

If you are running some daemon then try to run it in the background with all tty operations redirected to /dev/null (or some where else).

It should solve your problem. But i am not sure why it can not allow any more new telnet sessions.

Hope this helps,
Gopi

[Chakravarthi]

thx