SUMMARY: Inbound telnet problem

Ho-Sung Song (hsong@sdsosc.co.kr)
Thu, 17 Apr 1997 09:34:14 +0900 (KST)

This list is really great. My respect goes to all of members
helping each other. I haven't yet received my original asking
e-mail from the list(maybe because of unstable TCP/IP connection
of our site ?), but I've already received 8 answers(I suppose
much more haven't arrived yet due to the network unstability).

Great thanks to the responders:

Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>
"Mike Salehi" <mrs@cadem.mc.xerox.com>
baldma@aur.alcatel.com (Mark A. Baldwin)
Greg Ward <gkw@myriad.com>
Craig Singer <csinger@amtech.com>
Rahul Roy <roy@bluestone.COM>
Bob Woodward <bobw@www.filmworks.com>
sanjays@netcom.com (Sanjay Srivastava)

and many other responders whose answers haven't arrived yet. :)

* The question was:

Due to some corruption of device special file entries, I can't login
through network to a Solaris 2.5.1 SPARC as follows.

# telnet some.ip.address
Trying xx.xx.xx.xx ...
Connected to xx.xx.xx.xx
Escape character is '^]'.
telnetd: /dev/logindmux : No such device or address.
.
Connection closed by foreigh host.
#

* The answerer's consensuses are:

(1) Try "add_drv logindmux"

(2) Rebuild device special file entries with 'boot -r' at PROM monitor
or 'touch /reconfigure; init 6'

When I got the 1st answer of Casper, I found the 'logindmux' entry in
/etc/name_to_major was missing. "add_drv logindmux" cured the problem,
so I didn't try the reboot solution, but I believe it will surely work.

Thanks again for the great minds.
Ho-Sung Song
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