rsh problem

[sibisuresh]

Hi,

when we tried to rsh to the remote box it is not returning back to the $ prompt.

$rsh -n dns1 'id -a'
uid=16280(autosa) gid=16000(ops-sa) groups=16000(ops-sa)

It hangs there without return back to the prompt. We have firewall in between the servers and we have opened up all the ports in the firewall.

Thanks

 

[daFranze]

have you tried the rsh without the -n option?
have you tried another command than id?
habe you tried " instead of '?
did you run snoop in another shell? is there traffic between localhost and dns1 while it hangs?

debug:
run
# truss rsh -n dns1 'id -a'
to get more info if it is a localhost problem

run
# rsh -n dns1 'truss id -a'
to get more info if it is a remote host problem

please doublecheck the patchreleases of your hosts; I have seen so many problems already been fixed by a patch. If your patchrelease is very old help yourself and run an upgrade...

Best Regards, Franz
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Solaris System Manager from Munich, Germany
I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years in the domain of the OS, Backup and Storage