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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!nntp.uio.no!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!news1.tele.dk!cph-1.news.DK.net!dkuug!dknet!funny.bahnhof.se!seunet!news2.swip.net!nike.volvo.se!cyklop.volvo.se!peter From: peter@cyklop.volvo.se (peter hakanson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Need help with BSDI v2.1 remote installation Date: 20 Jan 1997 20:20:23 GMT Organization: Volvo Corp. Lines: 39 Message-ID: <5c0k27$lq7@nike.volvo.se> References: <32e244c0.475455483@news.cois.on.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: cyklop.volvo.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5663 One useful format is:(replace x.y.z.a with your clients ipaddress, or domain name if you have a working DNS) x.y.z.a root and the file must be called .rhosts with mode 0400 in root's homedirectory (normally /root Shane Bywater (shane@cois.on.ca) wrote: : Hi, : I'm trying to install BSD/OS v2.1 on a machine on our existing : network. It doesn't have a CDROM so I'm trying to use the remote : install option. So far with no success. : What I need to know is what that correct format for the : rhosts file is. The BSD/OS manual says it should contain the IP : address of the new host. But doing a "man rsh" shows that the : hostname should be in the .rhosts file. I've tried both ways and all : the combinations I could think of for the .rhosts file with no : success. The .rhosts file does have the proper permissions as both : the manual and man pages say it should. : The error I keep getting is something llike the remote : computer has to trust this local machine, make sure that this local : host is in the .rhosts file on the remote computer. It than tells me : where I can find the .rhosts file (ie. /root/.rhosts) for the user : root on the remote machine. I've modified that file as well the : rhosts file for a regular user on the remote host but haven't had any : success. : If anyone has done this successfully I would be greatly : thankfull if you could let me know how you did it or what I'm doing : wrong. : Thanks, : Shane -- -- <peter.devnull@cyklop.volvo.se> (remove ".devnull" before use!) Peter Hakanson VolvoData Dep 2580 phone +46 31 66 74 27