Why does `rsh` fail with the message "poll: protocol failure in circuit setup" ?

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Issue

While doing rsh to the server, getting following error:

$ rsh 192.168.0.254 -l username -n "pwd"
poll: protocol failure in circuit setup

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7
  • rsh-server

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