I am running OSF 4.0(no letter) on an Alpha 4/233 (128mb ram).
After a reboot today I was not able to telnet to this box. I could
occassionaly get the Escape character is ^] but no login prompt. I
couldn't even 'telnet localhost'. inetd was up. I could find no trace of
a telnetd in 'ps aux | grep telnetd' but I didn't know if there would be
one unless inetd had "gotten that far"... I used telnetd -debug <someport>
and was able to connect. <cheer!> That sort of eased my tension that it
may be login that is failing. I was getting new mail ok (I am working
from the console obviously). It just appeared to me that the telnet port
was clogged or something. I rebooted twice more in my attempts at
different solutions (never making any permanant changes). Now, I went to
write this note after having the "success" with -debug but still no login
to the correct port and I got an odd itch to see if I could telnet FROM
this box (don't know why I hadn't thought of that) and I could and
wouldn't you know it, I could telnet in as well... I had thought it was
net latency or something, but the pings were 1ms'ish. So I am wondering
if this has happened to anyone before. The "only" thing this machine does
is act as a mail and network news server for our campus (only about 1200
users).. Any suggestions on info I can glean from syslog (I looked for
any errors regarding telnetd or inetd without luck) or any info
regarding experiences such as this is most appreciated.
Thanks much,
Britt
Britton Johnson, Ass't System Admin.
Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO
johnson_at_lindenwood.edu
Received on Tue Mar 03 1998 - 00:43:11 NZDT