[parisc-linux] telnetd on hppa: strange behaviour?

[parisc-linux] telnetd on hppa: strange behaviour?

[joel.soete]

Hi all,

I use to work with a telnet connection to my hppa linux box.
And I just notice that if I do a ls -al in a directory containing many soft
links the telnet session stop with "connection close by foreign hosts" (and not
with a simple ls)?

(I just do a apt-get dist-uprade but nothing has to be done. Also I assume to be
up-to-date)

Thanks in advance for advice,
        Joel

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Re: [parisc-linux] telnetd on hppa: strange behaviour?

[Nathan Neulinger]

joel.soete@freebel.net wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I use to work with a telnet connection to my hppa linux box.
> And I just notice that if I do a ls -al in a directory containing many soft
> links the telnet session stop with "connection close by foreign hosts" (and not
> with a simple ls)?
> 
> (I just do a apt-get dist-uprade but nothing has to be done. Also I assume to be
> up-to-date)
> 
> Thanks in advance for advice,
>         Joel

Get yourself a more recent kernel. That's a known problem with the
kernel on the 0.9.2 media.

-- Nathan

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University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
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Re: [parisc-linux] telnetd on hppa: strange behaviour?

[joel.soete]

Hi Nathan,

Sorry but once again I forgot to mention it (because I thought to a telnetd bug):
I experiment it with my last 2.4.16-pa16 (not the one in debian pool package) as
weel as with kernel 2.4.9-32 (this from the debian pool
kernel-image-2.4.9-32_82.1_hppa.deb package).
And I also forgot to mentioned that I just do some 2h ago a apt-get dist-upgrade
and "0 pkg upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded". Also
may be too early uptodate?

Thanks for additional advises,
        Joel

Quoting Nathan Neulinger <nneul@umr.edu>:

> joel.soete@freebel.net wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I use to work with a telnet connection to my hppa linux box.
> > And I just notice that if I do a ls -al in a directory containing many
> soft
> > links the telnet session stop with "connection close by foreign hosts"
> (and not
> > with a simple ls)?
> > 
> > (I just do a apt-get dist-uprade but nothing has to be done. Also I
> assume to be
> > up-to-date)
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for advice,
> >         Joel
> 
> Get yourself a more recent kernel. That's a known problem with the
> kernel on the 0.9.2 media.
> 
> -- Nathan
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@umr.edu
> University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
> Computing Services                       Fax: (573) 341-4216
> 
> 


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Re: [parisc-linux] telnetd on hppa: strange behaviour?

[Nathan Neulinger]

Hmm... never seen that symptom except with the early kernels, which
obviously isn't the case here.

I'm not familiar with 'dist-upgrade', but I typically run 'apt-get
update' then 'apt-get upgrade'. 

-- Nathan

joel.soete@freebel.net wrote:
> 
> Hi Nathan,
> 
> Sorry but once again I forgot to mention it (because I thought to a telnetd bug):
> I experiment it with my last 2.4.16-pa16 (not the one in debian pool package) as
> weel as with kernel 2.4.9-32 (this from the debian pool
> kernel-image-2.4.9-32_82.1_hppa.deb package).
> And I also forgot to mentioned that I just do some 2h ago a apt-get dist-upgrade
> and "0 pkg upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded". Also
> may be too early uptodate?
> 
> Thanks for additional advises,
>         Joel
> 
> Quoting Nathan Neulinger <nneul@umr.edu>:
> 
> > joel.soete@freebel.net wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I use to work with a telnet connection to my hppa linux box.
> > > And I just notice that if I do a ls -al in a directory containing many
> > soft
> > > links the telnet session stop with "connection close by foreign hosts"
> > (and not
> > > with a simple ls)?
> > >
> > > (I just do a apt-get dist-uprade but nothing has to be done. Also I
> > assume to be
> > > up-to-date)
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for advice,
> > >         Joel
> >
> > Get yourself a more recent kernel. That's a known problem with the
> > kernel on the 0.9.2 media.
> >
> > -- Nathan
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@umr.edu
> > University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
> > Computing Services                       Fax: (573) 341-4216
> >
> >
> 
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Computing Services                       Fax: (573) 341-4216

Re: [parisc-linux] telnetd on hppa: strange behaviour?

[joel.soete]

Hi Nathan,

According to apt-get man page the difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade
seems to me to be in the selection of more or less important packages:

man apt-get
...
       dist-upgrade
              dist-upgrade, in addition to performing  the  func­
              tion  of upgrade, also intelligently handles chang­
              ing dependencies with  new  versions  of  packages;
              apt-get  has  a "smart" conflict resolution system,
              and it will attempt to upgrade the  most  important
              packages  at  the expense of less important ones if
              necessary.  The /etc/apt/sources.list file contains
              a  list of locations from which to retrieve desired
              package files.

But I always forget to log stdout and sdterr of this command.
Do you know if it exist somewhere a log of dpkg actions (like
/var/adm/sw/sw....log of HPUX SD)?

        Joel

Quoting Nathan Neulinger <nneul@umr.edu>:

> Hmm... never seen that symptom except with the early kernels, which
> obviously isn't the case here.
> 
> I'm not familiar with 'dist-upgrade', but I typically run 'apt-get
> update' then 'apt-get upgrade'. 
> 
> -- Nathan
> 
> joel.soete@freebel.net wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Nathan,
> > 
> > Sorry but once again I forgot to mention it (because I thought to a
> telnetd bug):
> > I experiment it with my last 2.4.16-pa16 (not the one in debian pool
> package) as
> > weel as with kernel 2.4.9-32 (this from the debian pool
> > kernel-image-2.4.9-32_82.1_hppa.deb package).
> > And I also forgot to mentioned that I just do some 2h ago a apt-get
> dist-upgrade
> > and "0 pkg upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not
> upgraded". Also
> > may be too early uptodate?
> > 
> > Thanks for additional advises,
> >         Joel
> > 
> > Quoting Nathan Neulinger <nneul@umr.edu>:
> > 
> > > joel.soete@freebel.net wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I use to work with a telnet connection to my hppa linux box.
> > > > And I just notice that if I do a ls -al in a directory containing
> many
> > > soft
> > > > links the telnet session stop with "connection close by foreign
> hosts"
> > > (and not
> > > > with a simple ls)?
> > > >
> > > > (I just do a apt-get dist-uprade but nothing has to be done. Also
> I
> > > assume to be
> > > > up-to-date)
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance for advice,
> > > >         Joel
> > >
> > > Get yourself a more recent kernel. That's a known problem with the
> > > kernel on the 0.9.2 media.
> > >
> > > -- Nathan
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@umr.edu
> > > University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
> > > Computing Services                       Fax: (573) 341-4216
> > >
> > >
> > 
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> 
> 
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> University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
> Computing Services                       Fax: (573) 341-4216
> 
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Re: [parisc-linux] telnetd on hppa: strange behaviour?

[Andrew Shugg]

[...]
> 
> But I always forget to log stdout and sdterr of this command.
> Do you know if it exist somewhere a log of dpkg actions (like
> /var/adm/sw/sw....log of HPUX SD)?
> 
>         Joel

No, but running your 'apt-get upgrade' or 'apt-get dist-upgrade' under
the 'script' program is a good way to record a complete log.

(Logging actions are being added to apt/dpkg e.g. for auditing but it's
got a fair way to go I think.)

For more info, see your friendly apt documentation.

Andrew.

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