When using a symlink to 'rsh', I get an 'unknown host' error

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Issue

  • We created a symlink to /usr/bin/rsh, but when we use it we get an unknown host error. When we create the symlink remsh -> rsh like the following:
# ls -l /usr/bin/remsh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 May 20 10:03 /usr/bin/remsh -> /usr/bin/rsh
  • We get the unknown host message when launching remsh:
# /usr/bin/remsh  -l root 172.16.11.254
remsh: Unknown host

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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