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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!enterpoop.mit.edu!world!jrs
- From: jrs@world.std.com (Rick Sladkey)
- Subject: Re: Problem with net-bin-0.2 rlogin
- In-Reply-To: alex@gravity's message of Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:17:07 GMT
- Message-ID: <JRS.93Jan8224242@lepton.world.std.com>
- Sender: jrs@world.std.com (Rick Sladkey)
- Organization: The Internet
- References: <1993Jan7.104207.3528@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- <1993Jan8.191707.6838@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 03:42:42 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- >>>>> On Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:17:07 GMT, alex@gravity (Alexander Jung) said:
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- Alex> I installed the programs from net-bin-0.2. All but one of them work
- Alex> without any problems.
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- Two out of three ain't bad.
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- Alex> The only one I could not get to work was rlogin:
- Alex> All I ever get from it if I try to connect to a remote host is:
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- Alex> gravity:~>rlogin sol.astro
- Alex> rlogin: connection closed.
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- Alex> (this happens to any of the machines here, i.e. RS6000, Sparcs,
- Alex> HP Apollo....)
-
- I only tested Linux <-> Linux. I forgot that by hacking rlogind
- I wouldn't fix rlogin to other non-Linux rloginds.
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- Alex> The only machine rlogin works to is my own machine (here it
- Alex> works without any problems, but that is probably not the intended
- Alex> use for it :-)
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- Well, you could you it to log into your neighbor's Linux...
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- Alex> I have 0.99.2, and lib 4.2, it is installed as setuid root and
- Alex> it seems to resolve at least the host name correctly (I get a
- Alex> 'unknown host' for a nonexistent host)
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- Alex> Could some kind soul please help me?
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- The problem seems to be in the kernel handling of urgent tcp data.
- I am writing a small test program and debugging it. With luck,
- a future kernel upgrade will solve the problem. Then we can
- unhack rlogind to send urgent stuff again...
-