From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Oct 29 08:59:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA27639 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 08:59:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from marlin.exis.net (root@marlin.exis.net [205.252.72.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA27630 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 08:59:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stefan@exis.net) Received: from sailfish.exis.net (sailfish.exis.net [205.252.72.104]) by marlin.exis.net (8.8.4/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA02154; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 11:59:21 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 11:59:12 -0500 (EST) From: Stefan Molnar To: John Brown cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rdist In-Reply-To: <01bce481$62c4f3c0$65df8bcd@is01.vafibre.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Did you setup the .rhosts file? on the reciving machine put in a .rhosts entry of the machine you are coming from. I think there is a man page on it. Stefan > 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 >