On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:40:43AM +0100, Dominique Petitpierre wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Strange.
> I tried to rcp the same file between various systems (Solaris 7 and 8 at
> various patch levels) with no problem. May be the problem lies somewhere
> else? A classic is that there is something in the remote $HOME/.cshrc or
> $HOME/.profile that causes some output (e.g. displaying /etc/motd) which
> throws off the rcp protocol: (from the rcp(1) manual page)
>
> | rcp can become confused by output generated by commands in
> | a $HOME/.profile on the remote host.
No, I tried pulling this file from several different machines, and other
files work. Also, a tcpdump analysis showed TCP getting confused and
netstat shows stuff in the send queue on the sending machine while it
hangs. I suspect this one machine has some special networking hardware or
an experimental driver or some debugging code.
Thanks for letting me know your experiences with other Solaris 8 machines;
it's reassuring to know it's not a problem I'm likely to run into all over.
- Dave Dykstra
