SATAN on AIX has a similar problem. AIX emits a permission denied that the simple test (test -s) doesn't catch > The bourne shell script 'rsh.satan' falsely reports a vulnerability on > hosts that are running DEC VMS 6.1 This is because the OS sends the > following message to standard output: > > UCX$RSHD - Permission denied - host IP addr > > To fix, just add a test for the above string to the 'if $TEST -s > "$tmp_file"' test in 'rsh.satan'. -- Andreas Siegert afx@ibm.de / afx@barolo.ak.munich.ibm.com / AFX at IPNET Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new - Thomas Watson, Jr.