I have given up the 7.2 machine, now trying to get rdist working between two 7.0 machines on the same subnet. (Just for sanity sake, I disconnected them from the network and placed only these two machines in a hub, thus there is no way the packets are going through anything else) The server name is in the /etc/hosts file as follows: 192.168.1.1 server1 server1.mydomain.net 192.168.1.2 server2 server2.mydomain.net I have the following on server2 in /etc/hosts.equiv, /.rhosts, and /root/.rhosts: server1 server1.mydomain.com 192.168.1.1 For sanity sake, I tried simply using only one of the three above at a time. From experience, ANY name specified in the /etc/hosts file for that IP address should work. After looking at the rdist man page, it looks as if some work has been done on rdist. Here is what does work: (from a root shell on server1) rsh server2 ls -al When I try these commands: rdist -c /some/file root@server2:/tmp rdist -c /some/file server2 rdist -c /some/file someuser@server2:/some/writable/dir rdist -c /some/file root@server2 (also many more permutations) Here is the output I get from these attempts: root@server2: updating host server2 root@server2: LOCAL ERROR: Unexpected input from server: "stty: standard input: Invalid argument". root@server2: updating of root@server2 finished Does anyone have any ideas? I have three other prople looking at this all with 6+ years admin experience, none of us can figure it out. I certainly hate to dump SuSE over something trivial as this, but we require this feature. (we are an ASP) I have nearly gotten my CEO to accept SuSE as the Linux platform over RH, it has been a long road and now it basically comes down to this and a few other minor problems. I have also done the verbose output of rdist which is just as vague as the error message posted above. Lastly, I also tried using rdist over ssh as the man page specifies, this does not work either. Has anyone, gotten rdist to work between 2 SuSE machines??? Thanks for any info, CC
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