July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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Chapter 3: Linux Commands
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rpm
rpm [options]
The Red Hat Package Manager. A freely available packaging system
for software distribution and installation. RPM packages are built,
installed, and queried with the rpm and rpmbuild commands. For
detailed information on RPM, see Chapter 5.
rsh
rsh [options] host [command]
Execute command on remote host, or, if no command is specified,
begin an interactive shell on the remote host using rlogin. The
options can be specified before or after host. Use of rsh has gener-
ally been replaced with ssh, which offers better security.
Options
-d Enable socket debugging.
-f Forward nonforwardable Kerberos credentials to the remote
machine and remove them after the command completes. -f
and -F are mutually exclusive.
-F Forward forwardable Kerberos credentials to the remote
machine and remove them after the command completes. -f
and -F are mutually exclusive.
-k realm
Use the specified realm to obtain tickets for the remote host.
By default, the rsh command gets the information from the
function krb_realmofhost(3).
-l username
Attempt to log in as username. By default, the name of the
user executing rsh is used.
-n Redirect the input to rsh from the special device /dev/null.
(This should be done when backgrounding rsh from a shell
prompt, to direct the input away ...
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