How can I get rsh and ssh to work?

I tried to enable using service xinetd start
after I download rpms for rsh and ssh.

Thanks!

What makes you think it isn't working now?

What are you trying to achieve?
What are you doing to achieve that?
What happens when you do that?
How is this different from what you expect?

(Often, actually going through this formal process will solve your problem.)

Looking at your profile, I see this is RHEL3 ES.
The default install already has everything needed to act as an ssh server, and includes the ssh client. At a terminal, enter "ssh localhost" and see what happens.

You install things to RHEL3 ES with up2date - you did register, right? If you didn't, consider migrating to CentOS - then you get to use yum

It's odd that you would need to - unless a very minimal install was used. What made you think you needed to?

You can only ssh into servers where the ssh server is running, you have an account, and which do not block port 22.

That said, RHEL3 is quite out of date now. It will contain security vulnerabilities and bugs that were fixed in later releases. You really need to upgrade.

I am actually using RH Linux ES 4 Advanced Server now.

I tested ssh and it works fine. But what does not work is rsh shell.

... hmmm: RHEL4 AS or RHEL4 ES? - It's one or the other.

Please reread post #2.