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Product Overview

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NTP Maintains the local clock on an HP-UX workstation in agreement with

Internet-standard time servers. For more information, see “Conﬁguring the

Network Time Protocol (NTP)” on page 281, or type man 1M xntpd.

rexec A library routine used to execute commands on a remote UNIX host on the

network. For more information, see “Installing and Conﬁguring Internet

Services” on page 27 or type man 3N rexec or man 1M rexecd.

rcp Allows you to transfer ﬁles between UNIX hosts on the network. For more

information, see “Installing and Conﬁguring Internet Services” on page 27

or type man 1 rcp.

rlogin Allows you to log onto a remote UNIX host. For more information, see

“Installing and Conﬁguring Internet Services” on page 27 or type man 1

rlogin or man 1M rlogind.

remsh Allows you to execute commands on a remote UNIX host. remsh is the

same command as rsh in 4.3 BSD. For more information, see “Installing

and Conﬁguring Internet Services” on page 27, or type man 1 remsh or

man 1M remshd.

ruptime Lists information about speciﬁed UNIX nodes that are running the rwhod

daemon. ruptime is not supported over X.25 networks or networks using

the PPL (SLIP) product. For more information, see “Installing and

Conﬁguring Internet Services” on page 27 or type man 1 ruptime or

man 1M rwhod.

rwho Lists information about speciﬁed UNIX nodes that are running the rwhod

daemon. rwho is not supported over X.25 networks or networks using the

PPL (SLIP) product. For more information, see “Installing and Conﬁguring

Internet Services” on page 27 or type man 1 rwho or man 1M rwhod.

rdist Distributes and maintains identical copies of ﬁles across multiple hosts. For

more information, see “Using rdist” on page 405 or type man 1 rdist.

rbootd RMP is an HP-proprietary boot and ﬁle transfer protocol used in early

workstations and in the Datacommunications and Terminal Controllers

(DTC/9000). For more information, see “Conﬁguring TFTP and BOOTP

Servers” on page 217 or type man 1M rbootd.

whois Lists information about speciﬁed people and organizations listed in the

Network Information Center (NIC) database. A direct socket connection to

the NIC is required. For more information, type man 1 whois.

Table 1-1 The Internet Services