Description of problem: Running lots of rsh's results in rsh failing with the error "poll: protocol failure in circuit setup". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ rpm -iqf /usr/bin/rsh Name : rsh Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 0.17 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 10 Build Date: Sun 23 Jun 2002 08:05:15 PM EDT Install date: Fri 22 Nov 2002 04:53:14 PM EST Build Host: perf90.perf.redhat.com Group : Applications/Internet Source RPM: rsh-0.17-10.src.rpm Size : 64489 License: BSD Signature : DSA/SHA1, Tue 03 Sep 2002 06:36:58 PM EDT, Key ID 219180cddb42a60ePackager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> Summary : Clients for remote access (rsh, rlogin, rcp). How reproducible: very Steps to Reproduce: 1. set up a user on hostB so that user on hostA can rsh to hostB without a password prompt 2. create the following script on hostA as "doit": system=${1:?} m=0 while true do echo -n $m n=10 while [ $n -gt 0 ] do /usr/bin/rsh $system echo hello >/dev/null & [ $? -ne 0 ] && exit 1 echo -n . n=`expr $n - 1` done wait echo m=`expr $m + 1` done 3. on hostA, run: doit hostB Actual results: within two minutes you get "poll: protocol failure in circuit setup" errors Expected results: no errors Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59876 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.