Distributed Systems Administration Utilities V1.0 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v2 December 2005

Command Fanout
Parallel Distributed Shell (pdsh), Parallel Distributed Copy (pdcp) and the commands based on these utilities
(cexec, ccp, ckill, cuptime, cps) display misleading error messages when the security environment is not
properly configured. For example, if non-interactive ssh is not properly configured, pdsh and pdcp display
error messages such as the following:
pdsh@source_node:target_node:Failed to initiate RCP protocol
pdsh@source_node:target_node:ssh exited with exit code 255
This indicates that pdsh was unable to establish an ssh connection with the remote node. For additional
troubleshooting information, refer to Managing Systems and Workgroups , Chapter 3, Configuring a System.
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