RE: cron job using rlogin

Kathy,

You cannot rlogin via cron as this requires interaction and will break your original shell that executes it (from cron or a command line). To execute something remotely, you will have to use 'rsh' - was this what you meant?

John Kanagaraj
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kathy Duret [mailto:KathyD_at_belkin.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 2:50 PM
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> Subject: cron job using rlogin
>
>
> In a Cron job I want to rlogin to server as a different user
> and can't find a way to pass the password in cron without
> having to put
> it in the rhosts file.
>
> Is there a way to do this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Kathy
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