rlogin from mgetty

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Fri, 4 Apr 1997 18:30:35 +0200


Hi,

G.Richter wrote:
[..]
> I have tried to first login in a normal account via mgetty and than execute
> the rlogin. Now I can see rlogin terminates with a Segmentation fault.
> If I login to the same account via a telnet session (or on the console) and
> excutes rlogin it works!

This is *very* weird.

> If have compared the environement settings, but found no differences. What
> else can be different between telnet and mgetty login?

Basically, nothing, except that one has a "real" tty and one has only
a "pseudo tty". rlogin shouldn't care, though.

Maybe you should try a more recent rlogin version...

> BTW. I have tried this with megtty 1.0.0 and an old version of mgetty 0.99
> (oct 95). 

mgetty 1.0 and 0.98 (and 0.22) shouldn't differ in this respect.

gert

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