samba - Dec 2001 - incorrect rpcclient usage

The usage for the "rpcclient" command shows:

	Usage: rpcclient server [options]

However, (on HPUX 11 anyway) it only works as:

	Usage: rpcclient [options] server

Looking in the source, it is because the "getopts" is ran first before
the
server name is extracted from the command line arguments.  I don't know if
"getopts" ignors non-args on other platforms, but on HPUX it will stop
processing at the first argument that doesn't start with a "-".


Dan T.

"THIBADEAU,DAN (HP-Roseville,ex1)" wrote:
> 
> The usage for the "rpcclient" command shows:
> 
>         Usage: rpcclient server [options]
> 
> However, (on HPUX 11 anyway) it only works as:
> 
>         Usage: rpcclient [options] server
> 
> Looking in the source, it is because the "getopts" is ran first
before the
> server name is extracted from the command line arguments.  I don't know
if
> "getopts" ignors non-args on other platforms, but on HPUX it will
stop
> processing at the first argument that doesn't start with a
"-".
I think you are hitting getopts variation between platforms.

Feel free to contribute a patch to convert it to popt.  (You will need
to attract the attention of one of the other team-members, probably best
by sending it to samba-patches@samba.org, see samba.org/samba-patches
for details).

Andrew Bartlett

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