On Mon, 16 Mar 2015, Ryan Freeman wrote:
> After updating to a March 8th snapshot (and i think a few snaps before)
> the /usr/bin/telnet binary seems to be doing something different.
>
> While i can connect to our access server here at $WORK, I can't get it
> to properly respond to the usual
> "Press RETURN to get started!" prompt. Normally, of course, hitting
> return continues on and brings up the IOS prompt.
>
> I noticed a few other devices on console server that normally wake up
> after connection + hitting return just don't wake up.
>
> my only work-around at the moment is using kermit, but this doesn't work
> very well with the tcl/expect-based tool i've been working on that uses
> vanilla telnet :(
>
> The previous release this machine ran was just 5.6-stable.
> Having a look at the cvs log for telnet shows it went through quite a bit
> of cleanup over the last 7 months (or rather, 7 months ago) so I'm not
> sure where to look at first, any pointers?
The output of connecting then doing
^]
display
with both a working and non-working binary would help.
If that was your only 5.6 machine, I believe the 5.6 source for telnet
(checkout the tag OPENBSD_5_6) will build once you add
#include <sys/param.h>
to commands.c
Philip Guenther
