rsh fails: [WAS] pvm connection problems

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 30 November 2005 08:30 am, Vittorio De Martino wrote:
> Context: 2 pentium 4 boxes; freebsd 5.4 & 6.0
>
> I detected that remote login via "rsh" doesn't work in my boxes:
> e.g.
> # rsh uffbsd
> uffbsd.myd.prv: Connection refused
>
> even though I've defined the trusted hosts on each box both in
> $HOME/.rhosts and in /etc/hosts.equiv.
> I've also uncommented the shell lines in /etc/inetd.conf to no avail.
>
> What should I do to enable the (mistrusted) rsh connection?
>
> Vittorio

Do you have inetd enabled (inetd_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf) and is it 
running?

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