On Thu Oct 28 1999 at 14:16, "Scott L. McCracken" wrote:
> We just upgraded to Red Hat Linux v6.0 Kernel 2.2.5-15. We are running a
> shell script using rsh from another UNIX platform, and we are getting a
> "Connection refused" error during the processing. The problem doesn't
> happen in a consistent manner. Sometimes we will get through half of the
> script, sometimes more other times less. We can't start up the script
> again until we stop and re-start the inetd daemon. The error message in
> /var/log/messages is "inetd[368]: shell/tcp server failing(looping),
> service terminated".
>
> Any assistance would be appreciated,
Is the in.rshd daemon actually installed into /usr/sbin?
Have you got /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} (mis)configured to allow access?
Are you attempting to remote access into the root account? That is
usually a no-no (requiring special things to be done to permit this).
Cheers
Tony
