From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 4 13:07:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA09735 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:07:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from inner.cortx.com (inner.cortx.com [207.207.221.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09724 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:07:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from costa@cortx.com) Received: from cman (cman.cortx.com [207.207.221.12]) by inner.cortx.com (8.8.8/8.8.6) with SMTP id QAA00583 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:09:29 -0500 (EST) From: "Costa Morris" To: Subject: rdist permission denied Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:12:41 -0500 Message-ID: <01bd31b1$a0fc65b0$0cddcfcf@cman.cortx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" I've been running rdist for 2 weeks now to keep a spare server updated in 2.2.5, and it worked great. I took down my second server to install a new fxp0 and then booted it up as my main server. I took down the main server and installed a new card and booted it up as my secondary. all worked great, until i tried doig an rdist to update my old main server so i can put it back to normal. i get a permission denied when i run rdist -Rf /etc/distfile i have /root/.rhosts on main with: main.com root second.com root and the same for second server /root/.rhosts i am running the command as root. can someone explain to me why this is happening and how i can solve it? thanks in advance. please reply ASAP. thanks -costa