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From: edwin@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: 7.0 + Yellow Page + rcp BUG / monitor for 7.0 ?
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Date: 19 Jul 90 08:19:38 GMT
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In <1990Jul18.154933.12205@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk> rkl@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk writes:

   | I've found a bug with Yellow Pages + HP-UX 7.0 (Series 300) + the rcp
   | command.
   | Our hosts.equiv has +@our_cluster_groups in it, allowing anyone to copy
   | a file to any other machine using the syntax:
   |
   | rcp host.username:filename filename
   |
   | However, this command now fails with HP-UX 7.0 if Yellow Pages is running
   | with the error 'rcmd: host.username: Unknown host'.
   |
   | Fix:
   |
   | Copy rcp from an HP-UX 6.5 backup - it works perfectly with or without the
   | username in the command.

Hmm, I think you missed something. In 7.0, HP has changed the "rcp" command
syntax: a remote user at some machine is now specified as "user@host".
(Well done HP, I hated the "host.user" syntax!)
So, your command should have been:

		rcp username@host:filename filename

Please verify this in the HP-UX 7.0 "Networking Reference" manual.


				good luck,
						--[ Edwin ]--
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