From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 14 11:03:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA19299 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 11:03:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gwis.com (darcy.gwis.com [209.57.72.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA19276 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 11:03:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from droberts@gwis.com) Received: from localhost (droberts@localhost) by gwis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id OAA00387; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 14:02:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 14:02:22 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Roberts To: Mark Tinguely cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rdump fails between freebsd machines In-Reply-To: <199901131517.JAA08351@plains.NoDak.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark, thank you for your response. I swapped the 2.2.7-R rshd with one from a newer revision and it began to work fine. Not sure why this only effected rdumps from only other FreeBSD machines, but the problem has been resolved and I appreciate your suggestion. Thanks! -Dan -- Dan Roberts, http://gwis.com/~droberts Gateway to Internet Services On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Mark Tinguely wrote: > we used to rdump between FreeBSD 2.2.7 machines all the time. I say > `used to' because we have upgraded to newer versions of FreeBSD a while back. > > 2.2.7-RELEASE shipped with a bad /usr/libexec/rshd. I assume that since > you can do rsh and rdumps from other platforms, you upgraded this daemon. > > is there any messages on the tape machine's /var/log/messages? for example > failing "rmt" programs. since rsh of the same data seems to work, you > would think it would not be the tape drive, but for giggles, have you tried > to see if sending the data to the tape machine's /dev/null (or to a file on > the tape machine if you have a large enough filesystem) also does not work? > > I would also watch the dump process with tcpdump maybe that can shed some > more clues on to what is happening on the network. > > > --mark. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message