This sounds like the kind of error you get if the host you issue the command from has no /etc/host entry on the server, or no DNS entry. The r commands like to do a reverse lookup to verify the IP address.
-----Original Message----- From: Wolfe, Gordon W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 2:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: rexec I'm trying to set up rexec to do specific commands from a disconnected CMS server on the VM machine running all the linux instances. With my SuSE SLES8 instances, I just set up the "service exec" in /etc/xinetd.conf to use /usr/sbin/in.rexecd and restarted xinetd, then added the host I wanted to be able to do remote commands in /etc/hosts.allow under in.rexecd. This works perfectly from CMS using the command rexec -l <userid> -p Password> my.host.dns.name <command> I have one Red Hat server that is actually the most critical one for this application. I set it up identically, but when I do the rexec command from CMS, all I get is Where are you? and a return code of 1, no matter what the command. I've got to be missing something somewhere. Anyone know what it is? "Always do right. This will gratify some people and confound the rest." - Mark Twain Gordon W. Wolfe, Ph.D, (425) 865 - 5940 VM Technical Services, the Boeing Company
