>On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Tuan Hoang wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm having problems rcp'ing to my Linux machine.
>> It's running Slackware 3.6 and kernel 2.2.1.
>> I can't seem to rcp from another machine (Solaris x86 and/or Linux).
>> I keep get the string "Where are you?" on the client machine.
>> What really boggles me is that rsh and rlogin work fine.
>> (rsh gives "Where are you?" on a line before executing the command.)
>>
>> I have my /etc/hosts.equiv setup with the hostnames of equivalent hosts
>> and my .rhosts set with the hostnames and my user name next to each on.
>>
>> Am I missing anything?
>> Attached is a tcpdump of my failed attempt at
>> "rcp optimus:/tmp/dmesg.txt ."
I've seen this before. You're probably using a C-shell derivative, such as csh
or tcsh, for your login shell. Check your .cshrc for anything that would
require knowing which tty you're on, such as ps, who, biff, tty, etc. When you
login, C-shell runs both .login and .cshrc. When you do a rsh or rcp, only
.cshrc is run. rcp doesn't need a tty entry, so it doesn't do all the setup of
making that work. Bourne-shell derivatives do things differently.
.login contains commands for setting up an interactive environment, so anything
that you need for interactive work should be in .login. Setting environment
variables and paths and the like should go in .cshrc. No commands in .cshrc
should ever produce output on stdout.
I just did a bit of testing, and I believe it's "biff". Take the biff command
out of your .cshrc and put it in your .login, and it should start working. If
it's not biff, then post or e-mail me your .login and .cshrc.
If that doesn't fix it, then I'm way off base.....
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Edward C. Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Let us leave the Last Dinosaur sinking inexorably deeper into the tarpit
which has now claimed all of Microsoft's predecessors in the proprietary
operating systems game. -- http://muq.org/~cynbe/rants/lastdino.htm
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
