Hello list,

I'm attempting to rescue some files off of a hdd.

I have tomsrtbt-2.0.103.

I tried httpd, and that works, but no directory listing, so can't easily
right-click and save files, and wget did not work, so could not easily
recursively get files (wget wouldn't even get one file - malformed
header or some such).

So I looked through the initial screen of "What you have is..." and saw
rshd. I assume I should be able to rcp from my other (Debian) laptop to
grab the files off the machine I'm rescuing.

httpd command worked fine with good (tomsrtbt) man page (after setting
appropriate ifconfig eth0 ip address it worked anyway - not sure if toms
is supposed to recognise my udhcpd server on the other box or not.
Either way, it ends up with 1.1.1.1 as ip, which I change to 192....).

rshd didn't make a lot of sense to me.

went to mailing list archives and found:
http://not.toms.net/cgi-bin/wilma_hiliter/tomsrtbt/199808/msg00041.html?line=68#hilite

Tried uncommenting the rshd line from inittab, didn't work. Created
/etc/hosts.allow with contents of "ALL:ALL". Tried making my inittab
line look just like the link above.

tried variations on the other (good) machine of rcp and rsh to no avail.

eventually went back to rcp, and tar'ed up all the files I needed and
used httpd to grab the tar file.

However, I'd like to know how I'm s'posed to make rshd work, because
next time the hdd might not have space to store a tar of all the files
to grab - or the hdd might be flaky on its last legs and it might be
best to just grab the files and run, so to speak.

When I try to rsh to the tomsrtbt box, my rsh just hangs, no prompt,
no nothing. Ctl-C gives me back my local shell. I am typing the
following (192.168.0.10 is my tomsrtbt box - I can ping it) - the
square brackets indicate the options I have tried (including all
shown):

  rsh [-K] [-l root] 192.168.0.10 [/bin/sh]

That link above also says "This one is "snarf" all the way.  It will
do ftp, http, gopher, or finger." But I see no "snarf" assuming that
is meant to be a command, nor ftp, nor ftpd. Snarf according to
apt-cache show snarf seems to suggest it is only for retrieving, not
sending, files. (Ie. ftp, scp, rcp? can send.) On the other hand I
notice wget - from the name I'd have confidence in it being able to
grab files from other host to tomsrtbt. Does wget do "finger", or
just ftp and http gets?

But it's the other way that I'm actually trying to transfer here...

Finally, I notice an "entry" (in the "What you have is..." called
"shared". This doesn't appear to be a command included...

???

Any hints and/ or doco refs appreciated.

Thanks
Zen

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