haugen@bulus3.bma.com (John M. Haugen) (05/24/91)
Ran into an problem with the remote shell (/usr/ucb/rsh) on my system and am
wondering if others are also.
System specifics
Interactive Systems Corp. Version 2.2.1
Interactive TCP/IP Version 1.2.0 with update SSU.4a
The problem
The following line will work :
cat $HOME/.profile | od
Yet the following command line will hang :
cat $HOME/.profile | /usr/ucb/rsh `uname -a` od
NOTE: the `uname -a` can be replaced with your host name. Also your .rhosts
file must be configured correctly if you use a password.
I must interrupt the command to get it to return a prompt and the last block of
data is missing. Prior to SSU.4a update, the same command would finish but
would not print anything out on the screen.
The problem command line does work as expected on the Suns we have here.
I have reported it to ISC support and they were able to reproduce it and are
looking into it.
This bothersome to me because I will often use the following command to save
data on a remote tape drive :
find . -print | cpio -oc | /usr/ucb/rsh remote-host "dd of=/dev/tape obs=10b"
Any words of wisdom out there??
John M. Haugen | Domain: haugen@bma.com
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