From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Oct 29 11:54:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA08874 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 11:54:50 -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 LAA08863 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 11:54:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonz@netrail.net) Received: from localhost (jonz@localhost) by netrail.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id PAA26251; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 15:52:48 GMT Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 15:52:48 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" To: John Brown cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rdist In-Reply-To: <01bce498$96747df0$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 Don't think that's the problem but if you wanna change permissions do a chmod 4555 to the file. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: :OK an Update.. I have setup rdist to go the other way and it works. (ie. I :can go from remote to local but still cannot go the other way) I continue to :get the permission denied on the other server. : :I have checked my hosts.equiv and .rhosts and both of these are correct or :at least the same (except different host names) on both servers. : :When I check the /usr/bin/rsh on the server that it is running successfully :on the permissions are r-sr-xr-x. On the server that I continue to get the :error on the permissions are r-xr-xr-x . Can this cause the problem? and if :so how do I correct/set the s permission flag? (Never had to do that before) : :Thanks : :> :>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 :>: :> :> :