[plug] Re: plug rsh on non-networked non-modem machine (MPI)

[Colin 't Hart]

Nicholas Yue wrote:
>         As a requirement for MPI (http://www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/), I need a
> working rsh.
> 
>         When I did a
> 
>         yue at localhost:~$ rsh localhost ls
>         socket: protocol failure in circuit setup.
> 
>         I thought maybe I need to give it a hostname, so I modified the
> /etc/hosts file and rebooted the machine
> 
>         yue at merlion:~$ rsh merlion ls
>         socket: protocol failure in circuit setup.
> 
>         Anyone with suggestions to help?


Did you enable LOOPBACK device in network settings somewhere when you
rebuilt your kernel?

Cheers,

Colin