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From: bell@pyro.ei.dupont.com (Mike Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: MacX and SystemV
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.132427.11970@pyro.ei.dupont.com>
Date: 27 Feb 91 13:24:27 GMT
References: <677@ecgcurly.UUCP>
Organization: DuPont Electronic Imaging
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In article <677@ecgcurly.UUCP> davidp@ecgcurly.UUCP (David Patten) writes:
>I am currently evaluating MacX 1.1 and have encountered a problem.
>If I am logged into a host machine by other means I can set the
>DISPLAY variable to point at my Mac and invoking a client, such as
>xterm, will cause its window to appear on my Mac if MacX is already
>running. However if I try and invoke the client directly from the
>Mac using the remote command facility I get the following message:
>
>	The remote command "test" could not be
>	executed via the tool "MacTCP Tool". Creation of
>	the remote command stream failed.
>
>	The connection came up halfway and then failed.
>
>The UNIX host is a System V machine. I do not get this error when
>trying to connect to a BSD host. Further investigation seems to
>indicate that MacX uses the rexec daemon, which is a BSD command
>and is not present on our System V machines. I have searched the
>manual and can find no reference to this part of MacX's operation.
>I have 2 questions -
>
>Am I correct that MacX is trying to use the rexec daemon?
>Is there any work around for System V machines?
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please send responses to
>davidp@mot.com
>
>Thanks,
>David Patten
>Motorola Cellular Subscriber
>Arlington Hts, IL
>"All opinions are my own and not necessarily those of my employer"




    Yes, MacX is trying to use the rexecd to launch the programs. I had the
same problem with a systemV machine about a year ago, andthe final solution
was to port the rexecd from the BSD sources. I think that rexecd also requires
inetd, so you may have to port that as well......




		Mike





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