re mac x and sun openwindows in article t o mrd ux cso uiuc edu kerr ux cso uiuc edu stan kerr writes benj ossa hq nasa gov benjamin jones writes i ve run into a bit of a snag while trying to get mac x up and running and would appreciate stuff deleted are not on my local net here but the above problem holds true for non local suns as well i tried to send this as private mail but mail to benj ossa hq nasa gov was rejected so here it is same here here is an extract from the readme file that comes with macx users of remote commands with sun machines may find that their remote commands appear to do nothing and there is no output from the sun machine this is due to a feature of the sun rexecd network daemon which quietly disconnects from requesting machines that are not known to the sun s network address etc hosts or nis hosts database to successfully use remote commands with a sunos based machine there must be an entry in the network address database for the macintosh which is running macx i received similar information advice about what appears to be the same problem benjamin has and i still have nis has all the information about the macs i even put explicit entries in etc hosts to no avail monitoring with snoop on my classic the initial rexec packet is sent to the the sun which sends something to the correct mac but nothing appears at the mac rexecd is number one suspect but it s more suble than the readme suggests and i haven t yet looked into it further stan kerr computing communications services office u of illinois urbana phone email stankerr uiuc edu callum downie brunel ac uk faculty of technology brunel university uxbridge ub ph uk x die meisten saetze und fragen welche ueber philosophische dinge geschrieben worden sind sind nicht falsch sondern unsinnig wovon man nicht sprechen kann darueber muss man schweigen
