Honest Guvnor wrote:

> 
> We were starting first with the simple solution. There is no intention
> of using rsh to connect from outside to the host. As much security as
> we can find is disabled on the compute nodes to avoid problems for


A shell hanging off a port is fairly insecure and lightweight. I think 
xinetd can organise it for you.

I don't know that you can get any terminal control going easily, but if 
it's only programs talking to each other that might not matter.


> 
> I believe this is a significant possibility. Can you suggest a quick
> route to find out what is happening, what ports are being used and
> other relevant information?

My firewalls log. Do/can yours?




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