From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 7 13:24:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13378 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 13:24:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA13357 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 13:24:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA13737; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 09:21:52 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 09:21:51 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: BEAUPRE Antoine cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Using rsh... [off-topic] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, BEAUPRE Antoine wrote: > command ( echo -n "" > /var/mail/$USER ) normally. But then I tried: > > rsh -Kl beaupran derby.jsp.umontreal.ca echo -n "" ">" /var/mail/beaupran > > and after a few seconds, I get: permission denied... > > how is that possible? Anybody's goot any idea of how I should do this? Assuming that you've set up everything else correctly (ie .rhosts file et al); there's a bug in the 2.2.7-RELEASE version of rshd. You'll have to update it (check out the ERRATA notice). Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "A person should be able to do a small bit of everything, specialisation is for insects" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message