[ILUG] rexec

[kevin lyda]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 05:22:25PM -0000, Hunt, Bryan wrote:
> rexec is bad news, the prefered way to do things like that is with ssh,
> if you don't want to use a password you can distribute your public key to
> the target machines.

uh, yes, very nice, but things like xon and dump still use rexec.

to the original question, make sure in.rexecd is installed and that
if you've changed xinetd's config file that you've hupped the server:
/etc/init.d/xinetd reload (or something like that).

kevin

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