Re: rsh wants to execvp rlogin woes

["Vlad D. Markov" <markov@monmouth.com>]

On Monday 14 October 2002 09:41 pm, Brian May wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 08:55:18PM -0400, Vlad D. Markov wrote:
> > When I execute "krsh -x happy" (Debian renamed rsh to krsh)
>
> Actually, you may still be able to use rsh, it just
> depends on what your update-alternative settings are.
>
> However, IIRC calling krsh without a command is not supported,
> and it just calls an existing version of rlogin.
>
> I don't know of a Heimdal version of rlogin, or even
> if one exists. Why not use telnet instead?
>
> > I get back:
> > rlogin: invalid option -- x
> > usage: rlogin [-8ELKd] [-e char] [-i user] [-l user] [-p port] host
> >
> > Telnet works, ftp works, the "X" stuff also fails.
>
> I do not know why the X stuff would fail, it has been ages
> since I last needed it.
>
> What errors do you get?
>
> > What can I do to fix this problem?
>
> Can you please give me the output of the following command?
>
> /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display rlogin
>
> I am just curious what rlogin is on your system.
>
> On my system, rlogin is provided by ssh, and -x means don't forward X
> (which is completely different to how krsh interprets it).
>
> [512] [scrooge:bam] ~ >/usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display rlogin
> rlogin - status is auto.
>  link currently points to /usr/bin/ssh
> /usr/bin/ssh - priority 20
>  slave rlogin.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/ssh.1.gz
> Current `best' version is /usr/bin/ssh.

On my system its like this:
bash$ /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display rlogin
rlogin - status is auto.
 link currently points to /usr/bin/netkit-rlogin
/usr/bin/netkit-rlogin - priority 100
 slave rlogin.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/netkit-rlogin.1.gz
Current `best' version is /usr/bin/netkit-rlogin.
bash$