Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen wrote: >> >>I don't have rsh installed on my machines any more, but I had >>a similar situation with telnet. >> >>Try this: Go into /etc/xinetd.d and see if you have a file >>for rsh. If so, edit it and see if there is a line that says >>"disable = yes". If so, change the yes to no. In my case with >>telnet, even after I turned the service on in system-config-services, >>it did not remove that line and did not start the service. >> >>If there is nothing related to rsh in /etc/xinetd.d, please ignore >>this post. > > > I already did that with no success > > Jouk > Make sure that portmap is running. The 'r' commands need portmap running on the target machine in order to connect. But you should be aware that portmap is a security risk. You really should look at using ssh in place of rsh. If you set up a key pair, you can use it as a drop-in replacement for rsh. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
