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All,

I have two AIX 5.3 systems that needs to run rsh commands on a Solaris 8 system, and one is failing. One, xx402 is a dedicated machine, and the other, xx452 is a virtual one on (via VIO).

The xx402 has no problem with the rsh commands but I keep getting "Permission Denied" when the same command is run from xx452. The .rhosts file on the Solaris server is set exactly the same for both machines, and no /etc/hosts.equiv is on either (nor is it on an HPUX machine which works fine).

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Check /etc/hosts.equiv on the target (Solaris) system.

Sorry, I neglected to mention that I have that set as well. So far, no luck. I have tried putting in IP's, full qualifying domain name, etc.

Stumped

Login interactively from the machine that isn't working, and enter 'who am i' the host value needs to be the same as what is in parenthesis in the last field, whether this is an ip address, hostname or FQN, if you have used the same value as this, then the issue is not with the name of the host.

It's all set for now. The xx402 server is in the .rhosts just as is and the xx452 server needed the fully qualified domain name.

I need to find out why and fix it, but that is a different issue.

Thanks all for the help.

Hello,

Just wanted to find out if you were able to determine why you had to put it fqdn. I am having similar if not same issue after I "unconfigured" HACMP on my two node cluster.

I am using rsynch and use rsh to run rsynch. Rsync worked before I took out HACMP config.

I am able to rsh from node 2 to node one with node2 name in .rhosts on node1.
i could not rsh to node 2 unless I put fqdn of node1 in .rhosts for node 2.
the only differencebetween my issue and yours is that I am prompted for a password


Thanks,
SkyyBugg