On May 31 22:31, Gokula Rangarajan wrote: > Team, > > I am running windows Server Enterprise 2008, 64 bit. I have installed the > latest version of Cygwin in the windows 2008 server. I have a bunch of > RHEL5.x servers that needs to controlled from Windows 2008 server using RSH. > While I am aware that SSH is more secure than RSH, I have no other options. > The benchmark software that we are using will work on rsh only. > > The issue is, from the windows server, using Cygwin, when I rsh to a remote > RHEL5.3 server, the prompt is empty (as if it has done something or working > fine) and unable to connect to remote server.
The problem is that the underlying rcmd(3) function, which is needed for a rsh implementation, has been dropped from Windows Vista/2008. Cygwin 1.7 has a replacement function, but on Cygwin 1.5.25 it's not possible to run rsh on Vista or Server 2008. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
