From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; AT&T CSM6.0; H010818) Description of problem: When a file is transferred using rcp from HP-UX 10.2 to RedHat 7.2, there is a 31 second delay in xinetd as viewed in /var/log/secure and /var/log/messages. There is no delay from HP-UX 10.2 to RedHat 6.2 or from RedHat 6.2 to RedHat 7.2 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 7.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rcp -p filename www4:/home/green 2. 3. Actual Results: Even with a 1 line file, there was a 31 second delay and then the file was transferred. Causes problems when many files are transferred. Expected Results: No delay for 1 line file. Same time to transfer a file between different servers. Additional info: The following is from /var/log/secure and /var/log/messages Authorization or security mismatch problem. rcp from hpb: one line file sent in 30 seconds Jun 7 10:50:00 www4 xinetd[701]: START: shell pid=5474 from=192.168.100.100 Jun 7 10:50:30 www4 pam_rhosts_auth[5474]: allowed to green@linksys as green Jun 7 10:50:30 www4 rsh(pam_unix)[5474]: session opened for user green by(uid=0) rcp from www1: one line file sent in 0 seconds Jun 7 11:05:01 www4 xinetd[701]: START: shell pid=5579 from=192.168.100.33 Jun 7 11:05:01 www4 pam_rhosts_auth[5479]: allowed to green@www1 as green Jun 7 11:05:01 www4 rsh(pam_unix)[5479]: session opened for user green by(uid=0)
Sounds like a local configuration issue, most likely related to a timeout for identd... check to see if you have logging onf that on in your configuration files.
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