rexecd fails with Could not allocate space for cmdbuf

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

Unable to run rexec commands, the in.rexecd server fails with similar error:

Oct 04 08:10:00 hostname in.rexecd[xxxx]: Could not allocate space for cmdbuf

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • rsh-server before rsh-server-0.17-79.el7
  • xinetd

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