Hi,

I recently had to reboot my RAQ 4r. Everything works great except...I can't telnet. Whenever I telnet I get the error...

in.telnetd: Error loading shared libraries: in.telnetd :symbol openpty on GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libutil.so.1 with link time reference.

Is there anyway to resolve this?

Regards,

Dayan

Relink the telnet binary against the currently installed libc. You might need to find and download sources for it on the internet somewhere.

But you shouldn't be using telnet anyway. Use SSH instead.

Thank you!

I am not too familiar with the OS. How would I go about relinking the files if I can't telnet to the server? Also, I have not installed OpenSSH on this server. Any ideas?

Thank you!

I am not too familiar with the OS. How would I go about relinking the files if I can't telnet to the server? Also, I have not installed OpenSSH on this server. Any ideas?
If your only access method is through telnet, you're going to need to physically go and connect a terminal to the machine. I can't remember if RAQs have VGA cards or not, but at the very least you'll have a serial console you can connect to. You may be able to get your ISP to hook it up to a KVM-like device and access it remotely that way (likely for a cost).

If you can't get telnet working once you establish some sort of connection to the machine, you might be able to successfully install SSH and then go into more depth fixing telnet through it.

Hi Keenan,

Thanks mate. I do have physical access to the server and a console cable as well. But I am not familiar enough to install SSH via the console. Looks like I may have to reinstall sometime.

Thanks for your help. Do let me know if you think of anything else.

BTW, can I download the mail from the httpd account? I tried to pop the account but don't know what password to use.

Regards,

Dayan

Install SSH via PKG from www.solarspeed.net, then use putty or other SSH client to connect. Telnet is a plain text protocol, like FTP, and is passing your username and password and all data in the clear all the time. BAD!