From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows NT) when i try to backup to a remote host using tar (tar -f host:/backup) it report "/etc/rmt not such file or directory" and abort. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.as root create an .rhost file in /root/ with this line "<hostname> root" where <hostname> is the name of your host. 2.open your rsh port: edit the inetd.conf file and uncomment the line rsh line, execute killall -HUP inetd . 3.check that you have installed the last rmt version (rmt-0.4b19-5.6x) Actual Results: bash: /etc/rmt: No such file or directory tar (grandchild): <hosname>\:/usr/local/src/ssh-1.2.29.tar.gz: Cannot open: Input/output error tar (grandchild): Error is not recoverable: exiting now gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Expected Results: drwxr-xr-x tri/operator 0 2000-07-03 13:08:15 ssh-1.2.29/ -rw-r--r-- tri/operator 13556 2000-07-03 13:06:51 ssh-1.2.29/COPYING -rw-r--r-- tri/operator 22129 2000-07-03 13:06:51 ssh-1.2.29/README -rw-r--r-- tri/operator 3914 2000-07-03 13:06:51 ssh- 1.2.29/README.SECURID ..... ..... ..... the error begun when we upgrade the rmt package, from rmt-0.4b15-1 to rmt- 0.4b19-5.6 , in the new version the file /etc/rmt is moved to /usr/etc/rmt ( FHS ?? ) so the quick solution to the bug is to create the link /etc/rmt --> /sbin/rmt as in the old rmt package.
Install the rmt package.
the rmt package is installed but, i repeate, the /etc/rmt file doesn't exist, it was move to /usr/etc/rmt so tar can't work, you has to recreate the link in order to get the tar command working back.
rpm -qpl shows /etc/rmt is present both in rmt-0.4b15-1.i386.rpm, as shipped with 6.2, and rmt-0.4b19-4.i386.rpm, as shipped with 7.0. Make sure you're using our package.
Also, rmt is part of dump, not tar.
The problem is present in the 6.2 update package (0.4b19-5.6x); please fix
Fixed in rmt-0.4b22-1 in rawhide