Bug 118630 – rexec fails with "Invalid Argument"

Bug 118630 - rexec fails with "Invalid Argument"

Summary:	rexec fails with "Invalid Argument"

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	rsh (Show other bugs)
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Version:	3.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Karel Zak
QA Contact:	Ben Levenson
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Duplicates:	142065 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:	132991
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Reported:	2004-03-18 09:34 EST by Chris Van Hoof
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:07 EST (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2005-05-18 09:03:12 EDT
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Description Chris Van Hoof 2004-03-18 09:34:15 EST

Description of problem:
rexec fails on RHEL3 when connecting to any other distro... ( rhl
tested ) with "invalid argument"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ALL

How reproducible:
Everytime

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Add host to .rhosts 
2.Add rexec to /etc/securetty
3.Execute rexec

Actual results:
user1@host1> rexec host1 ls 
Password:  
rexec: Invalid argument 

Expected results:
Normal rexec results.

Additional info:

Similar to bug 100976 on RHL

Comment 1 James McDermott 2004-04-07 12:44:40 EDT

Other interesting info, the -a option appears to "fix" the problem...
or substituting rsh seems to work too.

Comment 3 Pancrazio `ezio' de Mauro 2004-06-02 04:43:35 EDT

As a workaround:

LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 rexec <arguments>

Comment 4 Tomas Mraz 2004-11-16 08:22:56 EST

I see this with FC 3 as well. The problem is that the rexec calls
sigaction on every signal < NSIG. But one of the calls will fail.
The easiest fix would be to simply ignore failed sigaction call.

Comment 5 Karel Zak 2004-11-17 12:19:57 EST

Fixed in devel branch (FC4) and will fixed in RHE-3-U5.

Comment 6 Karel Zak 2004-11-23 02:38:25 EST

Fixed in RHEL-4 too.

Comment 7 Karel Zak 2004-12-07 03:15:10 EST

*** Bug 142065 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Tim Powers 2005-05-18 09:03:12 EDT

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-074.html

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