If you invoke qpid-tool with the --help option, it attempts to use --help as the target host name rather than provide a usage line.
fixed upstream in qpid SVN 668151.
cumin-0.1.2155-1.el5, qpidc-0.2.667603-1.el5, qpidc-perftest-0.2.667603-1.el5, qpidd-0.2.667603-1.el5, and python-qpid-0.2.668378-1.el5 have been pushed to the staging repo for testing
The option was added and working as expected, tested on RHEL 4.7 / 5.2 / 5.3 on package python-qpid-0.5.752581-1.el5. -> VERIFIED