Installing and Administering Internet Services

Chapter 10 323

Using rdist

Setting Up remsh

rdist uses remsh as the mechanism for distributing ﬁles over the

network. In order to use rdist, you must set up remsh on each of the

remote hosts. Follow these steps:

1. On each of the remote hosts, create an entry for the master host in

the $HOME/.rhosts ﬁle of the user who will run rdist. For example,

if rdist will always be run by user root, create an entry for the

master host in root’s .rhosts ﬁle (/.rhosts) on each of the remote

hosts.

2. On each of the remote hosts, make sure following line is

uncommented in the /etc/inetd.conf ﬁle. (Make sure it is not

preceded by #.)

shell stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/remshd remshd

3. On each of the remote hosts, issue the following command to force

inetd to reread its conﬁguration ﬁle:

/usr/sbin/inetd -c