On Jul 27, 1:27pm, Bill Warner wrote: > we use the rsh stuff quite a lot here in our local network. > it is sectioned off from the outside and a cracker could > probably do us a lot of damage if they got in through our > fire wall or were a disgruntled employee or some such > but as for right now we are dependent on them for lots > of scripts and such. > > to the question. We have a mix of SCO, HP-UX, and > Linux here, mostly SCO of which we use rcmd for > remote execution of commands. This does not exist > in Linux and I was wondering what the equivalent would > be. basically just execute a command remotely and have the > output displayed local. Is this a trick question? You obviously know about rsh. Why won't rsh work for you? Kevin