Re: [Sheflug] rlogin

["Ian Wright" <nospam [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk>]

Alex,

You're a star. It was the Telnet from both ends at once thing which sorted
me out. I hadn't realised that working from one end wouldn't provide a
bidirectional link. The only thing now which puzzles me is that, as I shut
one machine down completely before exiting the telnet link at the other
machine and this locked the terminal window on that machine - wouldn't let
me close that window until I closed down the machine - how does a dumb
server deal with such things. I thought that the idea of a server was to
provide a central resource of files and programs which you could access and
run from other machines on a network. If, as I thought was often the case,
this server has no keyboard and screen, how can you provide the 'telnet?'
link to the machine wanting to run a program on the server? I guess there
must be a more clever way of running the programs than just Telnet and I'm
still too ignorant to have found it. Or is there a way to run a script or
something which will watch for other machines logging onto the network and
automatically make a connection to them?
Thanks for your help.

Ian

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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield  UK

P.S.

----- Original Message -----
From: Al Hudson <eah106 [at] york.ac.uk>
To: Sheflug <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
>
> > I looked at ssh but, after 5 attempts, I still haven't managed to do a
> > successful ./configure on it!
>
> What's not succeeding? It's probably that you don't have one of the
> packages that it depends on.
>
It said I didn't have 'gc' and 'cc' installed - I installed the RPMS for gcc
and the ./configure found then but then, after some thought, said that I
still didn't have a working 'C' compiler.

Ian

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