I use rsh routinely on potato you did get the appropriate packages? rsh-client and rsh-server? They are not installed by default.
Jeff Tom Kuiper wrote: > > 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/ > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
