Re: Running a program on an RS6000 via FTP

["Jeffrey M. Silberberg" <silbrbrg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

        Carl, 

        Check the inetd.conf only tells you what is set to happen at IPL, 
 check the system with "ps -ef | grep rexed" to be sure that all is happy.

        Next do a simple check I am alive command instead of the 
application.

        cmd(df) or cmd(w) or cmd(uname -a) 

        these will bring a listing of some sort back and tell you rather
 you are getting to the system and rather rexed is functioning.

        Lastly, "run stc.322gatex" implies that there is a shell script 
 called "run" that you are passing the value "stc.322gatex" into.  This 
 script must live in a directory on the RS/6000 and the "rexecd" may not 
 have a path to the "run" script.  

        Let me know !

        Jeff Silberberg 

On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Carl Galgano wrote:

> Thanks to all who responded, especially, Neil, Dennis & Jeff.  At the risk
> (RS) of being a pest, I still can not get this working.
> 
> Per Dennis emial I did the following on the RS600 via a TELNET session and
> get the following response:
> 
>                                  
> $ grep rexec /etc/inetd.conf                                                  
>  
> exec        stream      tcp     nowait  root    /etc/rexecd     rexecd        
>  
> $                                                                             
>  
>                                                                               
>  
> So I assume the rexecd dameon is running on the RS6000.  Below is the AS400
> command I run (RUNRMTCMD):
> 
>                          Run Remote Command (RUNRMTCMD)                       
>  
>                                                                               
>  
>  Type choices, press Enter.                                                   
>  
>                                                                               
>  
>  Command  . . . . . . . . . . . . > 'run stc.322gatex'                        
>  
>                                                                               
>  
>                                                                               
>  
>                                                                               
>  
>                                                                               
>  
>                                                                               
>  
>                                                                      ...      
>  
>  Remote location:                                                             
>  
>    Name or address  . . . . . . . > RS6000                                    
>  
>                                                                               
>  
>                                                                               
>  
>                                                                               
>  
>    Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . > *IP           *SNA, *IP                   
>  
>  Remote user ID . . . . . . . . . > carledi       Character value, *NONE...   
>  
>  Remote password  . . . . . . . .   xxxxxxxxx     Character value, *NONE      
>  
>                                                                               
>  
>                                                                          Bot
> tom
> 
> The RUNRMTCMD command creates a spool file with the following error message:
> 
>                               Display Spooled File                            
>  
>  File  . . . . . :   QSYSPRT                          Page/Line   1/6         
>  
>  Control . . . . .                                    Columns     1 - 78      
>  
>  Find  . . . . . .                                                            
>  
>  
>*...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....+... 
>   Login incorrect.                                                            
>  
>                                                                             
>      
> I am sure that the user id & pwd I am using is correct.  I can use it to
> logon w/TELNET & FTP.  I have tried upper case & lower case.
> 
> Anyone have any other ideas????
> 
> TIA,
> Regards,
> Carl
>                                                                               
>  
> At 12:11 PM 4/25/97 -0400, you wrote:
> >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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