From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Oct 29 09:39:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA00223 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 09:39:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from netrail.net (netrail.net [205.215.10.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA00216 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 09:39:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonz@netrail.net) Received: from localhost (jonz@localhost) by netrail.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id NAA18132; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 13:37:42 GMT Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 13:37:42 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" 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 Put in ~root/.rhosts an rhost entry for the server the password file's coming from. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan A. Zdziarski NetRail Incorporated Systems Engineering Manager 230 Peachtree St. Suite 500 jonz@netrail.net Atlanta, GA 30303 http://www.netrail.net (888) - NETRAIL ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, John Brown wrote: :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 :