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From: Inus Scheepers <inus@aztec.co.za>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [Help] Rdist dies with segmentation fault ... how do I set it up?
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 12:27:26 -0200
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Brian Somers wrote:
> 
>         Inus Scheepers <inus@aztec.co.za> writes:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm trying to use rdist to mirror a file system from a 2.1.0R
> > to a 2.1.6R system, and so far all I've achieved is a getting
> > a segmentation fault and dump.
> >
> 
> Can you rcp things between the two machines ?  Perhaps this is just
> an RPC problem ?  If rcp works, please post your Distfile and maybe
> I can comment on that.
>

Bingo! I needed the following entry in /etc/services before it would
play:

cmd	514/tcp   shell	#like exec, but automatic

Many thanks,
Inus