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Re: Connection closed by foreign host.



Ah, good call.  I'll try it.     Thanks

On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Mike Orr wrote:

>Perhaps telnet is working properly but something else is causing your
>login shell to exit immediately. 
>
>I get a similar response, not with telnet, but with script.  I would get
>"Script started, output file is typescript" and then it would immediately
>exit with "Script done, output file is typescript".  This happens with
>bash at the console, but it does not happen in an rxvt, and it doesn't
>happen with zsh at all.  I don't notice it anymore since I use zsh all the
>time now, but a quick check revealed that it's still doing that. 
>
>Try putting an "echo Hello telnet world" as the first line of you .bashrc
>(or whatever shell initialization file you use), to verify whether your
>telnet session gets at least that far.  If it doesn't, try switching login
>shells and see if it that works. 
>
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