On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, L.M. van Piggelen wrote:

> > 
> > telnet      stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  in.telnetd
> > 
> When I start the telnet daemon by hand, this happens:
> 
> bash# in.telnetd & [1] 8457
> bash# in.telnetd: getpeername: Socket operation on non-socket
> 
> What does this mean? Is this good or bad?

  It means that only inetd is supposed to start in.telnetd, and you
shouldn't start it with stdin attached to your terminal instead of
socket.

-- 
Alex

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