Hi there,

I am running a shell script on AIX machine (AIX-1). In the script I have to execute another shell script on another AIX machine (AIX -2).

I had tried using rsh command. But it says permission denied.

e.g.

#script1
df
rsh AIX-2 df
Please explain how to configure the rsh, or is there any other way to complete the above task.

Thanks & Regards

Amit Kanodia

Hi Amit,

First, I should mention the obligitary comment that you should use ssh rather than rsh (OpenSSH, for example, ships with AIX, I think on the bonus or linux tools CD).

However, if you want to use rsh, configuring it on AIX is exactly the same as on every other platform.

On the host that you want to rsh to create a .rhosts file in the user's home directory, owned by the user with permission 600. Put in it

where "host" is the host you are coming from and "user" is the user account you are coming from.

There are other options and files, but this will work, so check out the man page if you want more info.

A neat trick with rsh is that you can create a symlink to it naming the host; if rsh is invoked with a name other than rsh it assumes that to be the name of the host you wish to connect to.
will run the uname command on the host called marvin. Saves 4 characters of typing, which has to be A Good Thing.