On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Andrew Brown wrote:

> >> But I still don't understand why it connected and executed the command
> >> (when rlogind isn't running). 

> what this means is that 'rsh localhost echo foo' will *always* work,
> regardless of the state of your network configuration (be it up, down,
> or broken), inetd configuration (or even if inetd is running), or
> personal opinions on the use of r-commands.

Thanks!

Okay, I see this documented in /usr/src/lib/libc/net/rcmd.c.
I'll write some patches for some manual pages and send-pr them.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/