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From: "John Brown" <jbrown@vafibre.com>
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Subject: rdist 
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 10:43:21 -0500
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I have been trying for a couple of days to get rdist to work so that I can
send my passwd file from one server to another and am getting the error
"Permission Denied" before an attemp is even made to connect to the remote
system.

I have looked through the archives and saw that many people have had the
same problem but did not see any resolutions.

Can someone tell me what I am missing permissions on?

I am attempting to run as root my FreeBSD Box is running 2.2-Release.

The following is the actual command i/o

# rdist -f distfile1
updating host ns.remoteserver.com
Permission denied.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

John Brown