how to copy a folder when remotely logged in via rlogin ?

petesimon · 11-08-2009, 11:51 AM

I'm a fan of UNIX/Linux and the Darwin/BSD stuff in Mac OS X, so I got some ideas about your question, but have not actually dealt with rlogin.

I think i need some more info to better answer your question. Is your question Mac OS X specific? are there a total of 3 computers in play here? and is this "ssh computer" a server?

Well anyway, if understand you correctly, i assume there are you file-shares, ftp server or web server with direct file access and you can indirectly connect to a rlogin-enabled node by first going thru a middle-man ssh-enabled computer. hm okay. so if i think of the previous statement in the reverse order then maybe you could copy files with the rcp command from a rlogin node to the middle-man computer and then copy files from the middle-man computer with sftp or scp command.
http://www.manpages.info/macosx/rcp.1.html
Another crazy idea that worked for me in a software based virtual terminal session to a unix machine in Windows was that I transferred files from the unix machine to me with a zmodem protocol file transfer utility sz file1 file2 etc and my terminal software had zmodem protocol "client" builtin. maybe this method would send the file transparently all the way thru without an intermediary copy step.
http://linux.die.net/man/1/sz

What do you think?

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11-08-2009, 11:51 AM	#2
petesimon Prospect Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 5	I'm a fan of UNIX/Linux and the Darwin/BSD stuff in Mac OS X, so I got some ideas about your question, but have not actually dealt with rlogin. I think i need some more info to better answer your question. Is your question Mac OS X specific? are there a total of 3 computers in play here? and is this "ssh computer" a server? Well anyway, if understand you correctly, i assume there are you file-shares, ftp server or web server with direct file access and you can indirectly connect to a rlogin-enabled node by first going thru a middle-man ssh-enabled computer. hm okay. so if i think of the previous statement in the reverse order then maybe you could copy files with the rcp command from a rlogin node to the middle-man computer and then copy files from the middle-man computer with sftp or scp command. http://www.manpages.info/macosx/rcp.1.html Another crazy idea that worked for me in a software based virtual terminal session to a unix machine in Windows was that I transferred files from the unix machine to me with a zmodem protocol file transfer utility sz file1 file2 etc and my terminal software had zmodem protocol "client" builtin. maybe this method would send the file transparently all the way thru without an intermediary copy step. http://linux.die.net/man/1/sz What do you think?