I just installed potato (2.2) on a new server and tried unsuccessfully to set up a daily rdist to it from an old machine running bo (2.0). After rdist failed, I discovered that rsh, which rdist uses by default, (and rlogin) are seriously disabled under potato. I guess it's a security feature. Not only are the services disabled in /etc/inetd.conf but the executables /usr/sbin/in.rsh and /usr/bin/in.rlogin don't exist. A search of the available packages with dselect did not turn up anything I could recognize.
One option would be to run rdist with ssh, but I also can't find an ssh in the bo archive. For that matter, does potato support rsh? Any advice would be much appreciated. Tom Kuiper -- Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (137.79.89.31) SnailMail: Jet Propulsion Lab 169-506, Pasadena, CA 91109 Phone/fax: (818) 354-5623/8895 WWW: http://DSNra.JPL.NASA.gov/~kuiper/
