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Re: utelnetd

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On Sun, Nov 10, 2024 at 10:08:47 -0700, peter@easthope.ca wrote:
>     From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
>     Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 17:30:42 +0100
> > But perhaps Make is right and utelnetd is built and ready to go?
> > 
> > What evidence would you have that it is not so?
> 
> # ls -ld /usr/local/bin/u*
> ls: cannot access '/usr/local/bin/u*': No such file or directory

Is this your first time building software from source code?  Normally
there are three steps:

1) Configure it to build on your system; this may involve running a
   shell script or a perl script, or editing files manually.  This
   is normally done as yourself.

2) Run "make" or "cmake" or some equivalent program.  This is normally
   done as yourself.  This builds the program(s) in the current directory,
   or some subdirectory.

3) Run "make install" or something equivalent, to copy the program(s)
   to the system directories.  This usually requires root privileges.

> # cd /usr
> # find . -type f -name "utelnetd"
> #

So what you're telling us is that you've done the first two steps, and
utelnetd has been built in the build directory, but you haven't
installed it into /usr/local/bin yet.

Now, I have absolutely no idea what this "utelnetd" does, other than what
I can guess from its name.  But if it's supposed to be a *telnet daemon*
that you run and connect to, then installing it in /usr/local/bin (or
somewhere) is only going to be one step among several.  You'd also need
to arrange for it to be run as a service.

If you're struggling with understanding the difference between "make"
and "make install", then getting this third party program running as a
service is going to have quite a learning curve for you.

The first question I had when I saw this thread was "Why on *earth* is
he trying to run a third party telnet daemon?"  What's wrong with the
telnet daemon that's included in Debian?  Why would you even want a
telnet daemon in 2024?  It's so incredibly insecure!

But hey, maybe the name is a red herring, and it does something else
entirely.  Who knows.

Anyway, I suggest you read the documentation more closely.  If the
documentation isn't adequate for someone with your skill set (which
is quite probable with third party programs), then please explain
to us what you're *trying to do*.  We'll probably tell you to throw
this thing away and use something else.

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utelnetd peter@easthope.ca - 2024-11-10 04:20 +0100
  Re: utelnetd Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-11-10 04:50 +0100
    Re: utelnetd from 2012 and `make DEBUG=1` Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl> - 2024-11-10 08:40 +0100
    Re: utelnetd peter@easthope.ca - 2024-11-10 17:30 +0100
      Re: utelnetd <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-10 17:40 +0100
        Re: utelnetd peter@easthope.ca - 2024-11-10 19:30 +0100
          Re: utelnetd <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-10 19:40 +0100
          Re: utelnetd Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-11-10 19:50 +0100
            Re: utelnetd peter@easthope.ca - 2024-11-14 20:00 +0100
              Re: utelnetd Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2024-11-14 20:30 +0100
                Re: utelnetd peter@easthope.ca - 2024-11-15 18:20 +0100
                Re: utelnetd debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-11-15 18:30 +0100
                Re: utelnetd Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-11-15 18:50 +0100
                Re: utelnetd peter@easthope.ca - 2024-11-15 20:30 +0100
                Re: utelnetd Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2024-11-15 23:00 +0100
                Re: utelnetd Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-11-15 23:10 +0100
  Re: utelnetd Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-11-10 21:20 +0100
    Re: utelnetd Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-11-10 21:30 +0100
      Re: utelnetd Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-11-10 21:40 +0100
      Re: utelnetd Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl> - 2024-11-10 22:30 +0100
      Re: utelnetd peter@easthope.ca - 2024-11-24 18:30 +0100
        Re: utelnetd Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-11-25 03:30 +0100
  Re: utelnetd Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-11-25 04:10 +0100
    [SOLVED] Re: utelnetd peter@easthope.ca - 2024-12-07 18:00 +0100
      Re: [SOLVED] Re: utelnetd Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-12-07 19:20 +0100
      Re: utelnetd David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-12-07 20:50 +0100

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