AIX 5.3 ML10 new install, rsh only partially working

Two boxes we just reloaded to use as a two node HACMP cluster to insure our software is compatible.

Install disks we received at our library on 5/2009 AIX 5.3-ML10

For sake of argument names ibmaix1 and ibmaix2

On both:
ibmaix1# oslevel -r
5300-10

.rhosts files with 600 permissions
ibmaix1 root
ibmaix2 root

hosts.equiv file created
ibmaix1 root
ibmaix2 root

also ran: chuser rcmds=allow root

rlogin works with no password, get command prompt immediately

rsh system_name
will give you command prompt if you DO NOT specify a command

If I specify rsh with a command I get:

ibmaix2# rsh ibmaix1 ps
ibmaix1.ourdomain.com: A remote host refused an attempted connect operation.

I have set this up before and not had problems.

I am looking at the pam.conf but have not modified it yet.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

---------- Post updated at 07:41 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:41 PM ----------

Answering my own question.

The final problem was that the "shell" entry was commented out in /etc/inted.conf

went smit inetd and restarted the service after removing the comment. Things started working after that.