From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Nov 4 11:38:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA01641 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 11:38:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from caliban.dihelix.com (caliban.dihelix.com [198.180.136.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA01620 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 11:37:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from langfod@caliban.dihelix.com) Received: (from langfod@localhost) by caliban.dihelix.com (8.8.7/8.8.3) id JAA07365; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 09:32:15 -1000 (HST) Message-Id: <199711041932.JAA07365@caliban.dihelix.com> Subject: Re: Fw: rdist Alternatives In-Reply-To: <01bce94a$976a2960$65df8bcd@is01.vafibre.com> from John Brown at "Nov 4, 97 12:53:43 pm" To: jbrown@vafibre.com (John Brown) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 09:32:15 -1000 (HST) Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: "David Langford" X-blank-line: This space intentionaly left blank. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk If moving password files and such I prefer "scp" from the ssh distribution. It does encryption over the wire and compression. I do wish it had the intelligence of rdist though.... Did you check that "exec" was enabled in inetd.conf? This is diferent that rlogind that rlogin uses. -David Langford >I have been working for a couple of weeks now to get rdist to work and have >been very unsuccessful. > >So now on to the next option. I need to duplicate my password db to my >secondary radius server. Are there other utilities that I can use to make >this happen? > >rdist info -- In case someone is interested. I started with a 2.1.x box and >was able to get it to transfer files from this machine to a 2.2.2 box but >could never get it going the other way. So being the smart individual that I >am I upgrade the 2.1.x box to 2.2.5 now -- well you guessed it...Now it >doesn't work either way. When running with the debug flag it appears to bomb >at the first rsh that is executed with a 'permission denied' at this point I >have checked everything that I can think of and am at a loss. rlogin will >work both way's but rsh and rcp AND rdist will not. (all die with the same >message 'Permission Denied'). Nothing in the messages log, NOTHING >AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!! > >God I Love Unix!!! ;) > > > > >