Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 55761
rdist failed
Last modified: 2015-03-04 20:09:49 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt) Description of problem: By copy the files via rdist to the Redhat 7.1 PC i get an error message "rdist: Check rdist availability/permissions on targethost". The rdist command works fine between HP-UNIX and Solaris, but from HP to Redhat i get the error. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Login the server which has the rdist configfiles. 2.rdist -f configfiles -m targethost 3.get the message "update targethost" and then the message "rdist: Check rdist availability/permissions on targethost" Additional info: I have the permission file .rhosts and the connection is okay. rcp and rsh are works. The RPM Package for rdist is installed.
There is a know problem with HP and rdist on Linux in general. I have modified a very old source to at least compile on Linux but haven't gotten any response wether this fixed the reported problem or not. If you are interested in the pure tarball just drop me an email and i'll send it to you. Read ya, Phil
For all those interessted in this problem: The next release of the rdist package will contain a oldrdist again. Yes. Really! Mr. Jaeger was very helpful in testing my port of the old 4.3BSD source code back from 92 that actually implements the old rdist protocol. I'll include the source and the oldrdist binary in the next release. This should help anyone still using the old protocol on e.g. HPUX machines. It'll take a couple of days until it'll appear on rawhide, but sometime around next week there should be a new version available via rawhide. Stay tuned, Read ya, Phil
OK, latest version available via rawhide rdist-6.1.5-18 contains the oldrdist now. Have fun, Read ya, Phil