Bug 118630 - rexec fails with "Invalid Argument"
Summary: rexec fails with "Invalid Argument"
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: rsh
Version: 3.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Karel Zak
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 142065 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: 132991
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-03-18 14:34 UTC by Chris Van Hoof
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2005-05-18 13:03:12 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2005:074 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Low: rsh security update 2005-05-18 04:00:00 UTC

Description Chris Van Hoof 2004-03-18 14:34:15 UTC 
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 16:44:40 UTC 
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 08:43:35 UTC 
As a workaround:

LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 rexec <arguments>
Comment 4 Tomas Mraz 2004-11-16 13:22:56 UTC 
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 17:19:57 UTC 
Fixed in devel branch (FC4) and will fixed in RHE-3-U5.
Comment 6 Karel Zak 2004-11-23 07:38:25 UTC 
Fixed in RHEL-4 too.
Comment 7 Karel Zak 2004-12-07 08:15:10 UTC 
*** Bug 142065 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Tim Powers 2005-05-18 13:03:12 UTC 
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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