Package: netstd? Version: netstd 1.22-1 or 1.23-1, netbase 1.20-1 or 1.19-1
I was logged into chiark as ian. I have permission (according to .rhosts files) to log into myrddin as iwj10. root exists on myrddin; ijackson and nonexistent do not. The bug involving quoting the remote dpkg -l invocation appears to be a bizarre interaction between the now-infamous libc GNU getopt bug and rsh/rshd. -chiark:~/mail> rsh myrddin -l ijackson echo hi myrddin.chu.cam.ac.uk: Address already in use -chiark:~/mail> rsh myrddin -l iwj10 echo hi hi -chiark:~/mail> rsh myrddin -l root echo hi Permission denied. -chiark:~/mail> rsh myrddin -l nonexistent echo hi myrddin.chu.cam.ac.uk: Address already in use -chiark:~/mail> rsh myrddin -l iwj10 dpkg -l '"net*"' myrddin.chu.cam.ac.uk: Address already in use -chiark:~/mail> rsh myrddin -l iwj10 'dpkg -l "net*"' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Rev Description +++-============-=========-====-=============================================== ii netbase 1.20 1 Basic TCP/IP networking binaries un netpbm (no description available) ii netstd 1.22 1 Networking binaries and daemons for Linux -chiark:~/mail> dpkg -l 'net*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Rev Description +++-============-=========-====-=============================================== ii netbase 1.19 1 Basic TCP/IP networking binaries un netpbm (no description available) ii netstd 1.23 1 Networking binaries and daemons for Linux -chiark:~/mail>
