Partial rsh host command not working

2007-12-25 10:14:00

Some time ago, I posted a question about rsh:

>We've got several Ultras running Solaris 2.5.1 and a Solbourne running SunOS

>4.1.2 . rsh works properly among all the Ultras and from the Solbourne to any

>of the Ultras, but it's exhibiting a strange symptom whenever I try to rsh from

>an Ultra to the Solbourne.

>From the Ultra, "rsh solstice" (solstice is the Solbourne) works fine...it acts

>like an rlogin and throws me into the appropriate home account. But whenever I

>try to run "rsh solstice command" it hangs for a minute and returns "connection

>refused". I searched the archives and found a similar problem that was solved

>when the user set up the .rhosts file to include the username field. Been

>there, done that, no effect.

>The solbourne is acting as an NIS slave server, with the NIS master server

being

>one of the Ultras. Somebody here was wondering if using the services file on

>the Ultra (through NIS) could cause a problem like this. Would it?

Thanks to the following for their replies:

Stephen Harris <sweh@mpn.com>

There were two suggestions:

1. Make sure that /etc/services has a line like

shell 514/tcp cmd # no passwords used

and /etc/inetd.conf has a line like

shell stream tcp nowait root /usr/etc/in.rshd in.rshd

to enable rsh.

(These were set correctly)

2. This can also happen if one of the machines is running the secure shell

version of rsh.

(As far as I can tell, we're running plain ol' rsh)

So I'm still stuck with a machine which returns "connection refused" whenever I

try to do an "rsh hostname command" to it. Has anybody else run into this?

--
Bill Fenwick Email: fenwick@digicomp.com
Digicomp Research Voice: (607) 273-5900 ext 32

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