the option you want to change is the rsh-open-timeout. set it to 0 and it should stop trying rsh.
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Michael Robinson wrote: > >> How do I disable pine's attempts to access TCP port 514 which according >> to /etc/services is the shell service? It doesn't need to access port >> 514 for imap access but it still tries. >> >> shell 514/tcp cmd #like exec, but automatic >> syslog 514/udp >> >> Jan 24 21:36:32 barn kernel: OUTPUT_t:IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.4.34 >> DST=192.168.4.1 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=55015 DF PROTO=TCP >> SPT=1020 DPT=514 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 >> >> Every time I try to run pine I get the above message in my logs that >> an attempt has been made to access the shell service remotely on tcp >> port 514. > > Can you post some of your .pinerc settings: > > smtp-server > inbox-path > incoming-folders > folder-collections > news-collections > > My hunch is that your configuration wants direct file access to your > inbox and/or folders (as opposed to, say, IMAP access to them) and > pine is trying to launch a remote session to allow it. > > Also -- are you still running Pine or have you switched to Alpine? The > latter is the currently supported version -- and it has UTF-8 support > so you can read your spam in the original Russian! :-) > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
