Re: rdist problem

James Amundson (amundson@fnal.gov)
Sat, 09 Oct 1999 14:37:18 -0500

The output you are sending looks like the host key changed during the upgrade.
It's easy for that to happen. If the host key stored on fnalu is different
from the host key now on e831code, you will get all sorts of complaints from
ssh. Is

>e831code@cheung.fnal.gov: LOCAL ERROR: Unexpected input from server: "Host key n
>". found from the list of known hosts.

really the entire error message, or did it get chopped off in the sending? Try
manually connecting with ssh -v to get more information.

--Jim Amundson

On Sat, 09 Oct 1999, Lynn Garren wrote:
>We have been happily using rdist with ssh to send files
>to Linux machines. One of those machines has just had
>a new install of Fermi Linux 5.2.1 and we can no longer
>get rdist to work from fnalu. Ssh works just fine,
>but when we try to use rdist, we see the following:
>
><fsgi02> /usr/local/bin/rdist -P/usr/local/bin/ssh1.old -f dist.cheung
>e831code@cheung.fnal.gov: updating host cheung.fnal.gov
>e831code@cheung.fnal.gov: LOCAL ERROR: Unexpected input from server: "Host key n
>". found from the list of known hosts.
>e831code@cheung.fnal.gov: updating of e831code@cheung.fnal.gov finished
>
><fsgi02> /usr/local/bin/rdist -P/usr/local/bin/ssh -f dist.cheung
>e831code@cheung.fnal.gov: updating host cheung.fnal.gov
>e831code@cheung.fnal.gov: LOCAL ERROR: Unexpected input from server: "Host key n
>". found from the list of known hosts.
>e831code@cheung.fnal.gov: updating of e831code@cheung.fnal.gov finished
>
>Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be?
>This situation has become urgent. We have tried everything we
>can think of and nothing has helped.
>
> Lynn