Hey Ed,
You are the man. I was turning biff off in my .cshrc instead of my
.login. It all works now.
Thanks,
Tuan
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Ed Lange wrote:
> >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.....
>
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