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From: mason@oct1.UUCP (David Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: rcp doesn't work one way
Message-ID: <1990Mar27.175258.7405@oct1.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 90 17:52:58 GMT
References: <22782@adm.BRL.MIL>
Organization: Open Computer Technology
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From article <22782@adm.BRL.MIL>, by Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (Marty):
> 
> Between two machines (a sun386i and a sun3/280) I can:
>         1) rlogin both ways with no problem
>         2) rsh both ways with no problem
>         3) rcp only one way (sun386i initiates the transfer).
>  
> The sun386i can send/receive stuff via rcp from the sun3.

I've seen a similar thing on ISC 386/ix 2.0.2.  It may be
unrelated, but it may not.  The problem was that one could
only fetch remote large files, and not move big files
local->remote.

The cause was the ulimit.  On V.3.2, the ulimit defaults to
about 2000 blocks, and can be reset in /etc/default/login for
all logins.  However, /usr/ucb/r* utilities are poorly ported
up to V.3.2 by Interactive, and do not read any of the
/etc/default/* files.  This problem was discussed in October
'89 on the net.  

Anyway, the ulimit was too low, so you couldn't write large
files remotely.  Maybe you should check this area.
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