From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 2 22:48:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA11385 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 22:48:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA11376 for ; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 22:48:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA25064; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 22:47:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 22:47:59 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Evan Champion cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A very odd one... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Evan Champion wrote: > I just moved my news server from BSD/OS 3.0 to FreeBSD 3.0-971101-SNAP. > > Everything is working great, except INN's batcher. I use batcher to > deliver batches to my UUCP feeds, over rsh to the UUCP server. > > If I do something like: > > batcher {file} | rsh -K {relay} "uux - -r -gd {site}!rnews" > > everything works just fine. If I get batcher to exec the rsh (by the -p > option), however, the rsh session hangs. I see the session starting on > the relay machine, but no data is ever transferred. If I use the -t arg > on rsh, it will fail with a session timeout. Check the login the rsh is using. If there is a lot of boot output, try dropping a ~/.hushlogin file in that user's home directory. The login output may be confusing inn. You might also try ssh. It's a generally more robust implementation of rsh, with an encrypted channel. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major