Distributed Systems Administration Utilities V2.1 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v2 October 2008

IMPORTANT: On HP-UX 11i v2 Integrity systems, pdsh requires an additional software, LibcExt,
to make use of the functions that are not shipped with the standard Library Routines, libc on
HP-UX 11i v2. LibcExt contains setegid() and seteuid() POSIX APIs, which the pdsh tool
requires to function properly.
LibcExt forms part of the Portability Package (Product # PortPkg) depot. You can download
Portability Package from the HP Software Depot web site at www.software.hp.com
Known Problems and Workarounds
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 Distributed Systems Administration Utilities User's
Guide, Chapter 4, Command Fanout.
DSAU Documentation
DSAU documentation includes the following items:
• Distributed Systems Administration Utilities User's Guide
• These Release Notes (the document you are reading)
• DSAU manual pages
• Open source manual pages
Locating the Distributed Systems Administration Utilities Release Notes
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Search for Distributed Systems Administration Utilities V2.1 Release Notes.
Locating the Distributed Systems Administration Utilities User's Guide
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