When using a symlink to 'rsh', I get an 'unknown host' error
Issue
- We created a symlink to
/usr/bin/rsh, but when we use it we get anunknown hosterror. When we create the symlinkremsh -> rshlike 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 hostmessage when launchingremsh:
# /usr/bin/remsh -l root 172.16.11.254
remsh: Unknown host
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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