rsh problems

[Dan Lance]

In article <23219.8906050826 at cxa.daresbury.ac.uk> wh%CXA.DARESBURY.AC.UK at cunyvm.cuny.edu (Bill Purvis) writes:
>Dennis G. Rears <drears at MIL.ARMY.PICA> writes:
>>  I am on a VAX 8600 running ULTRIK 2.0 trying to execute a rsh on a
>>SUN386i running SUNOS 4.0.1 (hostname drun).  My login name on both
>>machines is drears and I have .rhosts configured properly to rlogin/rsh
>>between machines.
>>
>> I am trying to run the following command on the VAX:
>>
>>tar -cf - .|rsh drun  tar xf -
>>
>>I get the error message back:
>>
>>stty:  operation not support on socket
>>
>We had the same problem, and eventually figured out that it was
>caused by the presence of an `stty' command in the .cshrc file on the
>remote machine.  We just deleted it but if you can figure out whether
>you are being invoked remotely, you could bypass it in this case but
>let it execute when invoked normally. Can anyone suggest the best
>method for doing this. I am sure I have seen it somewhere!
>
>Bill Purvis,
>SERC, Daresbury Lab, England
>wh at uk.ac.dl.cxa        (JANET)

Put 

if (! $?prompt) exit

at the top of your .cshrc.

--drl
Daniel R. Lance / drl at kodak.com / Eastman Kodak Company, Federal Systems Div.



























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