kickstart problem with ksh in RHEL 5.8 using pipes
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.8
Issue
If a string of commands is put together using pipes, the third command doesn't see any input.
E.g. following example
echo hello | cat | cat
works well on RHEL 5.5 but on RHEL 5.8 generates no output.
Resolution
The issue was tracked by BZ#892206 and fix released in advisory RHBA-2013:1351-1.
Root Cause
The issue is caused by ksh bug tracked by BZ#892206.
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