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Re: rshd not returning Win2K error messages


On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:36:49PM -0800, Hayden Ridenour wrote:
> I recently upgraded one of my Cygwin installations (on Win2K) to 1.1.7 with 
> the latest inetutils.  I configured the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files 
> for my accounts, installed an inetd.conf file, and installed inetd as a 
> service.
> 
> I was very happy to find that rshd was now working without the 10-minute 
> delay (thanks, Steve & Corinna!) but have since run into a problem.  If I 
> use rsh to try to run a program that isn't there, the OS generates a 
> message to tell me "The system cannot find the file specified."  Quite 
> unfortunately, rshd/rsh did not return the message out stderr or stdout to 
> my calling script.
> 
> I am hoping I merely missed something in my configuration or that someone 
> here has been through this same issue (and I haven't found it searching the 
> archives) and has some advice.
> 
> Cygwin 1.1.7
> inetutils-1.3.2-8
> CYGWIN=binmode tty ntsec notitle
> rsh from Solaris 7 to Win2K:
> 	# rsh win2kdemo <non-existent-program-name>
> 	#
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.

It's an error in rshd. I could figure out the reason so you will find
the fix in inetutils-1.3.2-10.

-10??? Yes, unfortunately. I have uploaded version -9 yesterday but
I can't suggest upgrading to -9 so I will _not_ announce that version.

Corinna

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