Package: pdsh
Version: 2.10-3
Severity: normal
The pdsh program provides multiple ways to specify target hosts. You
can use a file .WCOLL in your home directory. You can use the genders
database. You can use netgroups. You can even specify specific hosts
on the command line with the -w option.
The problem is that pdsh *REQUIRES* the .WCOLL file *AND* the
/etc/genders file, even if neither is being used. I run:
$ pdsh -w host1,host2 hostname
I expect to have the "hostname" command run on host1,host2, as pdsh has
all the information it needs to do so (and this works on IBM's dsh, my
dsh, and even the dsh included with Debian). Instead, I get the
following error:
$ pdsh -w host1,host2 hostname
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: /home/jlbec/.WCOLL: No such file or directory
.WCOLL is not needed, but there is no option to ignore this. So I
touch(1) $HOME/.WCOLL - not a fix, a workaround. I get the following
error:
$ touch ~/.WCOLL
$ pdsh -w host1,host2 hostname
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unable to open genders file: error opening genders file
Again, I don't need genders to function. But pdsh refuses to run
without it. Let's try touch(1) again - this time I need _root_
permissions:
$ su - -c 'touch /etc/genders'
Password:
$ pdsh -w host1,host2 hostname
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unable to open genders file: genders file parse error
Heavens! An empty configuration isn't even valid! Next we'll try
garbage:
$ su - -c 'echo foo > /etc/genders'
Password:
$ pdsh -w host1,host2 hostname
host1: host1.mydomain.com
host2: host2.mydomain.com
This is silly. pdsh knows from the -w option what it has to do. It
should not require empty configuration files that are irrelevant - let
alone empty files I require _root_ permission to create!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages pdsh depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.19 Debian configuration management sy
ii genders 1.6-1-1 cluster configuration management d
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgenders0 1.6-1-1 C library for parsing and querying
ii openssh-client [rsh-client] 1:4.7p1-3 secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh
ii perl 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii rsh-client 0.17-14 rsh clients
ii ssh 1:4.7p1-3 secure shell client and server (me
pdsh recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
* pdsh/setuidroot: false
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