Thanx folks for solving the inetd problem.
It was necessary to add a line to /etc/services too.
About the other yet unsolved problems I'd like to quantify
the slowness: with rlogin it takes less than 2 seconds to make
a connection on our local network, with ssh about 15!
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Guido Germano wrote:
> Systems: SGI Origin 2000 IP27 running IRIX64 6.5.3f
> SGI Indy IP22 running IRIX 6.5.3f
>
> Ssh version: 2.0.13
>
> Description of bugs: compilation was fine, out-of-the-box, but...
[snip]
> Another thing that worked with ssh1 was that connecting to a computer
> without ssh the connection returned automatically to rlogin. With ssh2
> I get "FATAL: Connecting to aracari failed: TCP/IP Failure" and have to
> make a second attempt with rlogin by hand.
>
> Moreover, when I login with ssh2 on a SGI
> 1) /etc/issue is not printed
> 2) info about the remote system is not printed
> 3) info about the last login is printed incomplete (only date, not from)
> 4) /etc/motd and info about mailbox status are printed twice
> 5) some environment variables are set incorrectly, notably
> REMOTEHOST, REMOTEUSER, DISPLAY, TERM and LANG
> When I log in to a DEC some of the above problems do not show up.
> Some of these problems are new to ssh2, some were present also with
> 1.2.21, like 5).
>
> Last, ssh2 is much slower than rsh and the documentation is incomplete:
> most of the FAQs still refers to version 1.
>
> How to repeat:
>
> toucan:~ > rlogin aracari
> Welcome to aracari, a SGI Origin 2000 parallel computer with 8 processors
>
> IRIX Release 6.5 IP27 aracari
> Copyright 1987-1999 Silicon Graphics, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
> Last login: Mon Jun 28 20:41:17 BDT 1999 by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> For general infos see http://aracari.phy.bris.ac.uk
> You have mail.
> aracari:~ > env | sort > rsh
> aracari:~ > logout
> Connection closed.
> toucan:~ > ssh aracari
> Last login: Mon Jun 28 1999 20:42:12
> For general infos see http://aracari.phy.bris.ac.uk
> You have mail.
> For general infos see http://aracari.phy.bris.ac.uk
> You have mail.
> aracari:~ > env | sort > ssh
> aracari:~ > diff rsh ssh
> 1c1
> < DISPLAY=toucan.phy.bris.ac.uk:0
> ---
> > DISPLAY=aracari:10.0
> 16d15
> < LANG=C
> 19c18
> < MAIL=/usr/mail/guido
> ---
> > MAIL=/var/mail/guido
> 28,29d26
> < REMOTEHOST=toucan.phy.bris.ac.uk
> < REMOTEUSER=guido
> 32c29,30
> < TERM=iris-ansi-net
> ---
> > SSH2_CLIENT=137.222.30.15 1235 137.222.30.22 22
> > TERM=iris-ansi
