remsh/rsh prblm

[dhanish]

Hi,
I am doing rsh to a hpux machine from a solaris machine.Now i have tried giveing
solaris#rsh hpux --> hpux is the hostname of my hp machine and solaris is the hostname of my solaris machine

it works !!!.But when i give

solaris#rsh hpux uptime

it does not give any o/p ...it just comes out to a hash prompt.

anbody has any clue...??

note: this command wrks on my other hp machine only this machine hostname :hpux is having prblm.

[Michael Tully]

What does the remote system report when you give it some other commands such as 'ls', 'date', 'bdf' ?

[John Carr_2]

Hi

does uptime give the correct output when logged directly into the hpux server ?

John.

[dhanish]

For all the command eg date, ls,bdf it just comes back at the hash prompt of the system from where i am doing rsh ie solaris machine.

[dhanish]

yes all these commands give the correct o/p when logged in directly into the system.

thnks

[John Carr_2]

Hi

can you remote login using rlogin if not I bet you dont have an entry for .rhosts or the IP is not getting translated properly.

good luck
John.

[dhanish]

yes i can remote login to the server without passwd.The entry is present in .rhosts of the remote server.That works fine for me but i can execute any command remotely.

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

You need to make sure that you have a valid '/rhosts' file for the user that you are using. If you don't this could be an expected result. Can you 'rlogin' to this server without using a password?

-Michael

[Kenny Chau]

What shell is your account running in both Solaris and HPUX? If they are different shell, this may cause the problem.

Hope this helps.
Kenny.

[dhanish]

yes my remote login without passwd works fine.

[dhanish]

Both solaris and hp root user are using (/sbin/sh).

[John Carr_2]

Hi

can you try reversing the process and remsh from hpux to solaris

John.

[John Carr_2]

Hi

can you check the output from this command

resh solaris . .profile 2>&1 \; uptime

John.

[dhanish]

Yes that works fine ..i did a #remsh solaris ls
from my hpux machine .

[dhanish]

Hi,
there is no .profile on in my solaris machine under / instead there is a .dtprofile.But i tried with hpux#remsh solaris ls ...it wrks fine.

[John Carr_2]

Hi

have you checked the status of the remsh command after executing

print $?

if it returns 2 then it failed to setup the secondary socket connection.

if it returns 1 then it failed in another manner.

if it returns 1 , scary it says it worked fine.

John.

[John Carr_2]

Hi

copy /etc/skel/.profile to / on hpux.

try remsh again

John.

[dhanish]

i tried the same from the solaris machine

solaris#rsh hpux ls; echo $?

1
solaris#


its gives 1 as the o/p.

[John Carr_2]

please ignore my last comment I misread your posting, unless there is no .profile on the hpux server.

[dhanish]

i have tried everything..comparing inetd.conf, /etc/services also...what can be the problem.???

[John Carr_2]

Hi


we need to try to capture stderr , pleas try this

remsh hpux uptime >/tmp/testfile1 2>/tmp/testfile.err

cat /tmp/testfile1

cat /tmp/testfile.err

John.

[John Carr_2]

hI

I have an old sparc I am booting now to test with , please confirm o/s versions for both servers.

cheers
John.

[dhanish]

Hi my sol version is 2.8 and hp version is 11.0 .John its not the probelm with os versions as such ...as its wrking with other HP-ux 11.0 machines .....but not with this particaulat hpux machine.

[dhanish]

Hi i tried redirecting the o/p and error to file1 an file2 but both the files got created and are empty.

[John Carr_2]

Hi

im stuck now I have a sparc with 2.7 and HP with 11.00 and I appreciate its unlikely to do with versions I simply wanted to try to replicate at my end for testing. Its really not possible to test when I cant replicate but I shall keep trying.

The .profile was a red herring I played with it and it made no difference.

I think we need a real guru too help now.

John.