Also, I can't seem to telnet into the empeg unless the root fs is rw. I'm guessing this is normal? If so, I would assume , since exiting the player spawns a new shell, putting rw after calling the old init won't help. Have you found away around this

I can´t give a workaround (though my info might hint you towards one), but I think I can explain what happens:
telnetd usually does wtmp and/or utmp entries, which means it puts a record into the appropriate logfile when a user logs on (so that "who" can show that user) and updates it at logout (so that it is not shown by "who" anymore, but "last" show when he/she logged in and when the logout happened).
There might be a commandline option that tells telnetd not to log to wtmp/utmp.



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