topic Re: replacing rpc in Operating System - HP-UX

replacing rpc

Pelephone System — Tue, 21 Oct 2003 07:42:46 GMT

Hi

i wanted to use the rcp on hp-ux 11.00 but it fail all the time , but after a have read all man pages of the rcp i saw that you have a problem to use rcp when your shell is cshrc

i m looking for somthing that can replace the rcp .

any ideas ?

Re: replacing rpc

Zeev Schultz — Tue, 21 Oct 2003 07:44:26 GMT

scp from the SSH depot?
ftp/rsync/rdist...

Re: replacing rpc

Robert-Jan Goossens — Tue, 21 Oct 2003 07:47:46 GMT

Hi,

If you use rcp, check if ip adres and hostname are in the /etc/hosts file. vi /.rhosts and add hostname and the user.
hostname root

Hope it helps,
Robert-Jan.

Re: replacing rpc

Michael Steele_2 — Tue, 21 Oct 2003 07:56:41 GMT

Regarding "...when your shell is cshrc...". Incorrect.

And SCP, Secure Copy, is more complicated for obvious reasons.

So lets concentrate on 'rcp' failing. Can you rlogin?

Permissions on $HOME/.rhost = 640 or 644.

After making changes run :

# inetd -c

Use this format for .rhosts:

[hostname [username]] [#comment]

A blank line.
A comment line, beginning with a #.
A host name, optionally followed by a comment.
A host name and user name, optionally followed by a comment.
A host or user name is a string of printable characters, excluding whitespace, newlines, and #.
Names are separated by whitespace.

Re: replacing rpc

Jean-Louis Phelix — Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:05:33 GMT

Hi,

The only problem is when you receive outputs from your .cshrc file. Try to modify it to keep it silent.

Regards.

Re: replacing rpc

Pelephone System — Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:05:45 GMT

Hi

rlogin is working well and also remsh .
when i m changing the shell of the user it also work .
also the .rhost is config with ++
and i m not getting eny error message when i m doing the rcp so i dont think it is a .rhost file or a missing ip adress

this i saw in the man pages :

WARNINGS
The rcp routine is confused by any output generated by commands in a
.cshrc file on the remote host (see csh(1)).

so i gave up with rcp and looking for a diff. method

if somone have users that is working with cshrc and can do rcp it will be great to know

Re: replacing rpc

Robert-Jan Goossens — Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:08:38 GMT

Hi Eithan,

The key word here is OUTPUT. If you have any echo commands in the
.cshrc or .login or .profile, then the rcp will fail with no errors.
You must take out the echo commands, then rcp will work fine.

Document description: When I use rcp it appears to copy but it doesn't.
Document id: CMA910318100

http://www4.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000006406934

Regards,
Robert-Jan.

Re: replacing rpc

Jean-Louis Phelix — Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:27:22 GMT

Hi,

I'm not a csh expert, but I made this test :

with this .chsrc :

stty erase
date

rcp will fail.

With this one :

if ($?prompt) then
stty erase
date
endif

It works.

This test is the equivalent of testing "-t 1" in shell to check if we are running an interactive session. Use it to avoid outputs when not associated with an interactive session like in rcp case.

Regards.