[Eug-lug] Sun RPC vs Debian

[Allen Brown]

telnet won't work because it requires a password.  This needs to
run nightly.  It takes about 12 hours to run and connects to
5 or 6 sites.  Using it interactively is not practical.
--
Allen Brown
  work: Agilent Technologies      non-work: http://www.peak.org/~abrown/
        allen_brown at agilent.com             abrown at peak.org
  "'Moderation in all things' is for wimps."


On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, larry price wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:00:38 -0800, Allen Brown <allen_brown at agilent.com> wrote:
> > I need to be able to use the commands that I think are called
> > Sun RPC.  I am referring to the commands rlogin, rcp, etc.
> > 
> > I know these commands are insecure.  I am inside a corporate
> > firewall trying to talk with computers that are running HPUX.
> > And the admins of those systems are sometimes reluctant to
> > install ssh.  But I need to be able to rsync to these
> > computers via a cron job.
> > 
> > RedHat installed these commands.  They worked just fine.
> > 
> > Debian does not install them.  Instead it installs ssh
> > right over those program names.  And ssh wants to use
> > port 22.  Wrong port for this protocol.
> > 
> > I did a apt-cache search for rpc and rcp.  If the rpc
> > commands are there, I sure don't recognize them.  What
> > should I find?  How can I solve this problem?
> > --
> 
> If you need to rsync from these HPUX machines, you could try something
> along the lines of
> 
> rsync -av --rsh='telnet otherhost'  foo/ otherhost:/bar/baz/qux
> 
> but i would get the HP/UX admin to tell you their preferred procedure
> (who knows they may have changed their mind about ssh)
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