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From: Robert Klein <rklein@zeus.towson.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: rsh Problem
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 12:04:23 -0500
Organization: Towson State University
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I have a cgi program executing a 'rsh' on the localhost and it's not 
working properly.  When I use the following:

rsh -n localhost ls -l

the shell doesn't terminate.

When I use the following command:

rsh -n iapnet.com ls -l 

I get this error:
select: protocol failure in circuit setup

Rob