rcmd: Lost connection

[Greg Cotten]

I have an HP-UX server that for whatever reason is giving me the Lost connection anytime I try to connect to it either using remsh or rlogin. I have entries in the .rhosts, hosts_equiv, and hosts file for the appropriate boxes I am trying to use to connect to this computer. I have tried editing the inetd.conf file the rlogin and remsh lines to no avail. Can someone please let me know if there is anything else I can try. I just loaded this fresh from local CD's and I have not made any modifications.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Either the .rhosts configuration is wrong, or the daemon in inetd.conf is not enabled or configured properly.

There could be a problem with inetd.conf and it needs to be restarted.

SEP

[Greg Cotten]

well I have edited the inetd.conf many times commenting out the rlogin and the remsh lines to see if it would help, then restarting inetd by the "inetd -c" command, and still same error. The .rhosts file looks like the following;
computername root
computername root

When I am root from one of many hp-ux boxes I still get the error. I can go from this problem hp-ux box to all the others via remsh or rlogin

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

>>computername root<< simple Question ?computer name is refer to pc/server ..?

can we try "IP address instead of >>Computer name (e.g)

192.168.1.1 root

[Greg Cotten]

Thanks for the replies but I edited the .rhosts file and put two of the other HP-UX machines IP addresses, taking out the hostname and still same error. Also nothing in the syslog about the error. Rebooted the server and still same. Anymore thoughts.

[madhuchakkaravarthy]

instead of adding ip address and hostname add just + in .rhosts file which makes the system trusted..

regards

MC

[Greg Cotten]

yesterday I used the ignite server to reinstall the OS due to the fact I had to update the swap space and the new installation fixed the issue. Thanks for the replies and I have assigned points. Thanks everyone.