Re: Running a program on an RS6000 via FTP

This is from our resident Unix expert, Dennis Lovelady, who was the AS/400 
system administrator   on our AS/400 and has moved up/down to Unix depending 
on how you see it. 


Dennis Responds:

Thanks for this.  It works fine here at KEMET.  Please pass the following 
message on to the list:

Hi, Midrangers!  Long time no talk.

On AIX4.1.5, you don't see rexec running (via ps -ef | grep rexecd) unless it 
is currently honoring a request from another system.  This is because inetd 
determines the need to spawn rexecd processes on an as-needed basis.

To determine if rexecd is configured on your AIX system, you can do:
   $ grep rexec /etc/inetd.conf

You should get back a line looking something like this:
  exec  stream  tcp      nowait  root   /usr/sbin/rexecd     rexecd

If this line is not echoed, or if it is preceeded by '#' then the SysAdmin 
would need to alter inetd.conf to include the rexecd daemon.  (Note that by 
default, rexecd is configured to run on the system, so if it has been 
disabled, there may be some reason (such as a security concern) at your site.)

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