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From: hill@faline.bellcore.com (Chris Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: pmax ultrix 3.0 rcp bug
Keywords: rcp pmax
Message-ID: <2300@faline.bellcore.com>
Date: 7 Aug 89 21:08:31 GMT
References: <8908031904.AA24094@garnet.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: hill@faline.UUCP (Chris Hill)
Organization: Bellcore MRE
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In article <> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>In article <8908031904.AA24094@garnet.berkeley.edu> rusty@GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU writes:
>> Does anybody know if the rcp bug in Ultrix 3.0 on the DS3100 where
>> when you do an rcp between two remote machines it comes back with
>> "Segmentation fault" (but doesn't core dump)?  Here's an example of
>> what I mean:
>> 
>> machine1% rcp machine2:file machine3:file
>
>Anybody try this?  It works fine on VAX architecture...
>
Where	a=uVAX II
	b=3100
	c=3100
On system a
	rcp b:file c:file
works OK
On system b
	rcp a:file c:file
	rcp c:file a:file
	rcp c:file b:file
	rcp b:file c:file
all fail with Segmentation fault
but
	rcp c:file .
	rcp file b:
both work OK

Thank goodness we never use that command!