I have been testing the inetutils 1.5 package for a while and have found out the following issues:
1) Backspace won't work if we do telnet localhost. Or terminal in which TERM=cygwin is set. 2) When I start inetd service as SYSTEM user in win xp 64 bit, set UID error is shown when the inetd.conf file is updated to start telnet/ftp as admin user. Hi, thank you for your report, would you like to try and see if the problem persists with the CVS version of inetutils? Attached are instructions for getting the source code, and building it. ===File ~/s/inetutils/README-alpha========================== This is the GNU Inetutils package. This document describes the actions needed to build the pre-release or CVS version of the package. See end of file for copying conditions. * Introduction This is a *pre-release* version, and not ready for production use yet. If you are taking source from CVS, you will need to have several special tools to help contribute. See the file README-hacking for more information, see chapter `Building' for the detailed instructions on how to build the package. Please, note that the accompanying documentation may be inaccurate or incomplete. See ChangeLog for the list of recent changes. Report bugs to <bug-inetutils@gnu.org> If you see a problem that you've already reported, feel free to re-report it -- it won't bother us to get a reminder. Besides, the more messages we get regarding a particular problem the sooner it'll be fixed -- usually. If you sent a complete patch and nobody applied it or got back to you, please let us know! * Checking Out the Sources The following instructions apply if you wish to obtain sources from the CVS repository: cvs -d:pserver:anon...@cvs.gnu.org:/cvsroot/inetutils co inetutils There is also a Git mirror of the CVS repository. To obtain sources from Git use: git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/inetutils.git Both ways will give you read-only access. If you think you need write access, contact the mailing list. * Prerequisites You need the following packages to build the development version of GNU Inetutils. We don't make any extra effort to accommodate older versions of these packages, so please make sure that you have the latest stable version. - Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/> - Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/> - Bison <http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/> - Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/> - Gnulib <http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/> - Libtool <http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/> - M4 <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/> - Texinfo <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo> * Building 1. Change to the source tree directory cd inetutils 2. Run ./bootstrap Once done, proceed as described in the file INSTALL. Normally you will have to run bootstrap only once. However, if you intend to hack on Inetutils, you might need to run it again later. In this case, you will probably want to save some time and bandwidth by avoiding downloading the same files again. If so, create in the inetutils root directory the file named `.bootstrap' with the following contents: --gnulib-srcdir=$HOME/gnulib --skip-po Replace `$HOME/gnulib' with the actual directory where the gnulib sources reside. For more information about `bootstrap', run `bootstrap --help'. See INSTALL and README for the detailed instructions. * Development If you are looking for something to hack on, please take a look at the TODO file in the CVS repository. You can track the CVS process through the <commit-inetut...@gnu.org> mailing list. This is a medium volume moderated list. Daily snapshots built from CVS are available from <http://daily.josefsson.org/inetutils/> Log outputs from building the daily snapshot on some systems are available from <http://autobuild.josefsson.org/inetutils/> * Copyright information: Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved, thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn. Permission is granted to distribute modified versions of this document, or of portions of it, under the above conditions, provided also that they carry prominent notices stating who last changed them. Local Variables: mode: outline paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" version-control: never End: ============================================================