On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 09:35:47AM -0700, Petcher, Daniel wrote: > I've been trying to play with the rsync command and --rsh=rsh, (just among > Linux servers to keep things simple at first) but I've had no luck at all. > > I can't even successfully do a rsh <hostname> to talk to another server. I'm > running SlackWare Linux 11 on most of my servers. Do I have to set-up some > sort of rsh.conf file somewhere? Do I have to open a port by un-commenting a > line in my /etc/inetd.conf file?
One of the first things to try is running nmap; that will tell you whether the port is blocked or active. But at this point you should assume your Slackware servers do not have rshd installed (locate rshd) and configured (it is usually a security hole) and that the port (222?) is not open in the firewall rules. Ubuntu and Redhat both have GUI configuration tools for this, so I'm rusty on the command line tools needed. Of course, you will need to set up RSH for passwordless access, and I don't know how to do that either. There may be a few Slackware users on the dirvish list ... or not; mostly Debian folk here, I would guess. So this is probably not the best place to ask Slackware/RSH questions. Your best bet is to ask questions on a Slackware list about setting up RSH. There are a few people in the Portland area running Slackware, so you can ask on the Portland Linux User's Group list at http://www.pdxlinux.org . Good luck! Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list Dirvish@dirvish.org http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
