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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SOLVED: rsh/rlogin problems in 2.0.5-RELEASE
Date: 17 Jul 1995 12:24:49 +0200
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John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> wrote:
>Many people have posted accounts of long delays or hangs when trying to
>use rsh or rlogin to a system running FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE. Today I
>discovered the cause of the problem, at least on my system. Once you
>understand the cause, the fix is trivial.
>A quick "grep my_very_good_friend /etc/*" took me straight to the
>"/etc/hosts.equiv" file, which looked like this:
>
> #localhost
> #my_very_good_friend.domain
Fixed.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)