su command failing on RHEL5

[Sanjay Kumar]

Hi,

 

su command is failing with below error on RHEL5. We are using
coreutils-5.97-14.el5

 

address@hidden ~]# su --version

su (GNU coreutils) 5.97

 

 

 

address@hidden ~]# su poo -c "cat /dev/tty"

cat: /dev/tty: No such device or address

 

 

strace is showing below:

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fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=56426016, ...}) = 0

mmap(NULL, 56426016, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x2b37c6dff000

close(3)                                = 0

fstat(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 1), ...}) = 0

open("/dev/tty", O_RDONLY)              = -1 ENXIO (No such device or
address)

write(2, "cat: ", 5cat: )                    = 5

write(2, "/dev/tty", 8/dev/tty)                 = 8

open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 3

fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2528, ...}) = 0

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The above command is working on RHEL4 with coreutils-5.2.1-31.7

 

Please let us know the fix available or not.

 

Thanks & Regards,

 

Sanjay Kumar

Sr. Software Engg

Symantec Corporation 
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