remsh problem

[Chamitha Wijesekera]

I'm new to HP-UX and have a problem executing remsh. When I type,

remsh uname

simply to list the OS type of the remote machine I get the message,

remsh: getservbyname

I have no idea what to do! By the way i'm trying the remsh command on my local machine for simplicity. ie if my local machine name is "wizard" i'm presently typing,

remsh wizard uname

[Rodney Hills]

Sounds like your system is trying to use NIS to lookup the host name.

Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf to not include NIS in its search if you are not using NIS.

If you are using NIS, then their must be a problem in your NIS setup.

-- Rod Hills

[PIYUSH D. PATEL]

Hi,

Check your /etc/hosts file properly for the hostname.

What is the output of

#nslookup wizard

Piyush

[Chamitha Wijesekera]

yes i am using a nis account to login to my machine.

i tried including the machine name and account name to the .rhosts and hosts.equiv files on the machine i want to access (which is my local machine itself) however this did not help either

[Chamitha Wijesekera]

nsswitch wizard output is as follows

Name Server: sahara.vignette.com
Address: 10.18.0.103

Trying DNS
Trying NIS
looking up FILES
*** No address information is available for "wizard"

[Wodisch]

Hi,

well include your system "wizard" into the NIS-server's master-map (or into the DNS-server's zone-files), or into your local "/etc/hosts".
In your "/etc/nsswitch.conf" should be a line like that:

hosts: files [NOTFOUND=continue] nis [NOTFOUND=continue] dns

Which means that your system will first search in your local "hosts" file, then ask a NIS-server and at last query the DNS-server. Use the order you want, of course.

Try a "rlogin wizard" first, and (if it works), execute "who -u" to see the name used, and put that into the system's "$HOME/.rhosts" (or "/etc/hosts.equiv").

Then try again.

HTH,
Wodisch

[PIYUSH D. PATEL]

Hi,

change the order in your nsswitch.conf file

files nis dns

Piyush