Please disregard and thanks to all who responded. I forgot to enable the firewall to allow these services from the outside. As soon as I enabled ports 512-514 everything started working.... Dumb on my part. Thanks, Dave -----Original Message----- From: linux-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Kirkwood, David A Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 11:52 AM To: 'Linux Mail List' Subject: rsh under SuSE I have installed in.rlogind, in.rshd, and in.rexecd services and added them to the xinetd.conf as login, shell and login respectively. When I try to rsh for a remote system, ( I added + to hosts.equiv and .rhosts to the appropriate user login ) I get the following in the /var/messages file and the prompt doesn't give any information, but just sits there until I controlC out. Mar 7 11:08:52 linux kernel: SFW2-INext-DROP IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:11:43:5c:1d:6f:00:03:ba:09:48:02:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.100 DST=192.168.1.47 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=33610 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=1021 DPT=514 WINDOW=24820 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT (01010402020405B4) Mar 7 11:08:55 linux kernel: SFW2-INext-DROP IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:11:43:5c:1d:6f:00:03:ba:09:48:02:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.100 DST=192.168.1.47 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=33611 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=1021 DPT=514 WINDOW=24820 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT (01010402020405B4) Does anybody know what the messages mean and what I have to do additionally? As always, all help is appreciated. Thanks, Dave - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
