[7512] in Athena Bugs
Re: rpc.ucb
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Fri May 3 09:48:55 1991
Date: Fri, 3 May 91 09:48:40 -0400
From: Ken Raeburn <Raeburn@MIT.EDU>
To: jh@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
When rcp is given two remote host names, I believe it does something
like "rsh host1 rcp file1 host2:file2" (or "rsh.ucb ..."). Question
is, should it be using "rcp" or "rcp.ucb" in that string? Using
rcp.ucb would break compatibility with systems that don't have the
Kerberos versions.
Perhaps a partial solution is to figure out why rcp takes so long to
fail in cases where it should be able to detect failure immediately,
and fix that. It doesn't make it shut up about the lack of the ticket
file, though.
