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Date:      Thu, 8 Oct 1998 09:21:51 +1300
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
To:        BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Using rsh... [off-topic]
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.4.02.9810080919290.3072-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.981006153502.15862A-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca>

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On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, BEAUPRE Antoine wrote:

> command ( echo -n "" > /var/mail/$USER ) normally. But then I tried:
> 
> rsh -Kl beaupran derby.jsp.umontreal.ca echo -n "" ">" /var/mail/beaupran
> 
> and after a few seconds, I get: permission denied...
> 
> how is that possible? Anybody's goot any idea of how I should do this?

Assuming that you've set up everything else correctly (ie .rhosts file
et al); there's a bug in the 2.2.7-RELEASE version of rshd. You'll
have to update it (check out the ERRATA notice).

Jonathan Chen
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