On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 07:22:13PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
>     Date:        Sun, 7 Jul 2002 09:30:29 +0100
>     From:        Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
>     Message-ID:  <20020707093029.A25499@quartz.newn.cam.ac.uk>
> 
>   | rdist(1) calls rcmd(3).
> 
> But dump does not...   dump -f host:/dev/tape requires rsh as currently
> implemented.
> 
> "dump -f - | anything at all" is not a substitute, as then dump doesn't
> get to rewind/unload the tape, when it requires a tape change.
> 
> Until that one is fixed, discarding rsh is not an option, even if it would
> be otherwise (which I don't think is necessarily true anyway).

I don't want to discard rsh! I just don't understand why using ssh instead
should cause the two rdist processes from talking to each other!

Patrick