Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 02:37:23 GMT From chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk!ian Mon Dec 11 18:34:34 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0tPKY6-0002r6C; Mon, 11 Dec 95 18:34 PST Received: from artemis.chu.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA21640 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Mon, 11 Dec 1995 18:34:25 -0800 Received: from chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk by artemis.chu.cam.ac.uk with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #33) id m0tPKXs-0007uMC; Tue, 12 Dec 95 02:34 GMT Received: by chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk id m0tPKXQ-0002baC (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.35); Tue, 12 Dec 95 02:33 GMT Message-Id: Date: Tue, 12 Dec 95 02:33 GMT From: Ian Jackson To: Debian bugs submission address Subject: very silly messages from rsh Package: netstd? Version: netstd 1.22-1 or 1.23-1, netbase 1.20-1 or 1.19-1 I was logged into chiark as ian. I have permission (according to .rhosts files) to log into myrddin as iwj10. root exists on myrddin; ijackson and nonexistent do not. The bug involving quoting the remote dpkg -l invocation appears to be a bizarre interaction between the now-infamous libc GNU getopt bug and rsh/rshd. -chiark:~/mail> rsh myrddin -l ijackson echo hi myrddin.chu.cam.ac.uk: Address already in use -chiark:~/mail> rsh myrddin -l iwj10 echo hi hi -chiark:~/mail> rsh myrddin -l root echo hi Permission denied. -chiark:~/mail> rsh myrddin -l nonexistent echo hi myrddin.chu.cam.ac.uk: Address already in use -chiark:~/mail> rsh myrddin -l iwj10 dpkg -l '"net*"' myrddin.chu.cam.ac.uk: Address already in use -chiark:~/mail> rsh myrddin -l iwj10 'dpkg -l "net*"' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Rev Description +++-============-=========-====-=============================================== ii netbase 1.20 1 Basic TCP/IP networking binaries un netpbm (no description available) ii netstd 1.22 1 Networking binaries and daemons for Linux -chiark:~/mail> dpkg -l 'net*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Rev Description +++-============-=========-====-=============================================== ii netbase 1.19 1 Basic TCP/IP networking binaries un netpbm (no description available) ii netstd 1.23 1 Networking binaries and daemons for Linux -chiark:~/mail>