On Tuesday 08 June 2004 19:16, G Chinnery wrote: > Hello. I am new to the list and have a problem I hope someone can help > me with please. Please, next time you send a message about a new subject to the list could you send it as a new message. Not as a reply to somebody else's posting, even if you change the subject, because it interrupts the flow of conversation in a thread of messages. Doing that is known as 'Hijacking the thread' and there are a few subscribers who get rather hot and bothered over it.
> I have 5 servers running mandrake 8.1 ( just upgraded from 6.1) and I am > having problems with some web scripts I have. Mandrake 8.1 is rather old now you know. Many, many bugs have been fixed since then. > on my old system the scripts used rsh -l username to log into the other > servers to get info. > now I have to use ssh and I can't get it to work with out asking for a > password and breaking the script. > > can someone explain how ssh can login to another server with out a > password given??? There are precise instructions here:- http://www.steidler.net/uptime/archives/000391.html and yes I know they they work because I've done it using them. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
