Re: {bb} messages file full of same telnetd error from bigbro

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 14:46, Charles Jones wrote:
> Why are you even running telnetd? If you don't need it for some legacy 
> application support or something, I would do away with telnet and just 
> use sshd. The errors are most probably caused by bigbro dropping the 
> telnet connection un-gracefully. The ttloop error occurs because the 
> telnet session was reset before the session could fully initialize.
> 
> I don't know offhand of an easy way to ignore/disable these warnings, 
> other than hacking telnetd source, or bigbro itself. One sure fire way 
> is to stop using insecure telnet ;-)

Except that sshd will probably do something very similar when it's
tested by BB. A search of the list archives for "protocol mismatch"
should reveal a few threads about that.

If testing with bbnet (even using the optional flags) causes the
telnet daemon to log the connection, you could try using an external
script which can call the telnet client. That is likely to be much
slower than the normal way, so you may want to run it less frequently.
Also, this may just change the message that is logged from failure
to success.

Another approach, which has been reported as being useful, is to use
syslog-ng to filter any messages that are triggered by BB test from
the logs.

Cheers, Phil.



-- 
It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one. (Phil White)

--
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
To unsubscribe from this list, or to subscribe to the bb-digest list
send e-mail to mailto:majordomo@bb4.com with unsubscribe bb -and/or-
subscribe bb-digest in the BODY of the message.