Installing and Administering Internet Services

Chapter 1 23

Product Overview

The Internet Services

NTP Maintains the local clock on an HP-UX workstation in agreement with

Internet-standard time servers. For more information, see “Conﬁguring

NTP” on page 207, or type man 1M xntpd.

rexec A library routine used to execute commands on a remote UNIX host on

the network. For more information, see “Installing and Conﬁguring

Internet Services” on page 27 or type man 3N rexec or man 1M

rexecd.

rcp Allows you to transfer ﬁles between UNIX hosts on the network. For more

information, see “Installing and Conﬁguring Internet Services” on page

27 or type man 1 rcp.

rlogin Allows you to log onto a remote UNIX host. For more information, see

“Installing and Conﬁguring Internet Services” on page 27 or type man 1

rlogin or man 1M rlogind.

remsh Allows you to execute commands on a remote UNIX host. remsh is the

same command as rsh in 4.3 BSD. For more information, see “Installing

and Conﬁguring Internet Services” on page 27, or type man 1 remsh or

man 1M remshd.

ruptime Lists information about speciﬁed UNIX nodes that are running the

rwhod daemon. ruptime is not supported over X.25 networks or

networks using the PPL (SLIP) product. For more information, see

“Installing and Conﬁguring Internet Services” on page 27 or type man 1

ruptime or man 1M rwhod.

rwho Lists information about speciﬁed UNIX nodes that are running the

rwhod daemon. rwho is not supported over X.25 networks or networks

using the PPL (SLIP) product. For more information, see “Installing and

Conﬁguring Internet Services” on page 27 or type man 1 rwho or man

1M rwhod.

rdist Distributes and maintains identical copies of ﬁles across multiple hosts.

For more information, see “Using rdist” on page 319 or type man 1

rdist.

rbootd RMP is an HP-proprietary boot and ﬁle transfer protocol used in early

workstations and in the Datacommunications and Terminal Controllers

(DTC/9000). For more information, see “Conﬁguring TFTP and BOOTP

Servers” on page 163 or type man 1M rbootd.