RCP on RHAS 2.1

[Tonatiuh]

I issued the following command:

[root@RAC1 root]# chkconfig rcp on
error reading information on service rcp: No such file or directory

What must I do in order to activate the RCP service?

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

there is no "rcp" service, you should start "rsh" service

[Paul Cross_1]

rcp, rlogin, rsh, rsync, etc. all rely on the rsh service.

make sure the rsh-server and rsh rpms are installed on the respective machines.

[Tonatiuh]

The rsh is installed:

[root@RAC1 root]# rpm -qa| grep rsh
rsh-0.17-5
rsh-server-0.17-5

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

as I wrote , rcp will work when rsh will work.

So you should:

1) on server box add "client_hostname" to ~user/.rhosts file
2) run "ping client_hostname" from server
3) chkconfig rsh on
chkconfig rlogin on
chkconfig iptables off
service iptables stop
4) if user is root, you should add
rsh
rlogin

to /etc/securetty
file on server machine

5) run "rsh server date" command from client in order to verify.

[Tonatiuh]

This is my /etc/securetty file:

[root@RAC1 oracle]# cat /etc/securetty
rsh
rlogin
pts/0
pts/1
pts/2

But I still be denied to rsh with root from another server.

[Vitaly Karasik_1 · Accepted solution]

so add

localhost

to .rhosts file and check

rsh localhost date

on server. does it work?

[Tonatiuh]

It is working now. THANKS!