[plug] Trouble configuring rsh server

[Buddrige, David]

Hi all,

I'm running a Redhat 7.2 system at work, and I am trying to get the rsh
server running on it so that I can run commands on it remotely using rsh.

In Redhat 6.2, the way this was done was to configure the /etc/inetd.conf,
however Redhat 7.2 seems to use a completely different system -
/etc/xinetd.conf and a bunch of config files in /etc/xinetd.d.  I have set
these up thus:

service shell
{
  disable = no
  socket_type = stream
  wait = no
  user = root
  log_on_success += USERID
  log_on_failure += USERID
  server = /usr/sbin/in.shd
}

I have added the other machines' ip addresses into the hosts.allow and
hosts.equiv, however this does not seem to have helped

The error message that I get is "Connection refused".

Does anyone have any ideas on what might be causing this?

Alternately, does anyone know of a howto for rsh - I've been searching
linuxdoc but have not been able to find anything thus far.

thanks heaps guys

David.

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