🚀 go-pugleaf

Well I just thought I would post this in case anyone was interested.

I gues you are all a little more sensible that I, however.

I went throught the syslog and discovered what was happening. Guess I
should have done taht already. Hey. We learn. So anyway this was the
problem...I had changed the root user login name for security reasons to a
word other than root. Obviously the shell was trying to execute tcpd which
has to run suid to root. It couldn't figure out why there was no root
entry in the password file and so it just killed itself off without
spawning in.telnetd

I guess the lesson is this is that if you want to alter the root login you
should in fact alter the password file so that the user root does exist
but is not permitted to login (by using a star for the password field).
Then go ahead and duplicate that with your alternate root login name. I
guess most of you knew this but there might be someone who didn't (like
me).
[The other lesson of course is that ummm well I guess you should check the
syslog file before posting to aus.computers.linux :p]

Anyway thanks to those folks who responded. I don't think anyone
anticipated my foolishness :)