Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!nic.MR.NET!uwmcsd1!marque!uunet!mcvax!enea!kth!draken!liuida!pausv From: pausv@smidefix.liu.se (Paul Svensson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: remote background jobs Message-ID: <1103@smidefix.liu.se> Date: 6 Dec 88 00:50:45 GMT Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden Lines: 24 Problem: How do I start a background server process on another machine? I have tried using rsh, but it refuses to exit when I want it to. I have also looked at rexec(), but it seems to require username and password info to be availiable; a real pain in the ***. What I'm trying to do: Given a mixed network (mostly suns and goulds, but also others) I would like to start a server on any availiable machine; this should be done only when a client notices that no server is availiable - note that the machine running the client is possibly not able to run the server. Question: How do I achieve this, without leaving rsh, in.rshd or other processes waiting for the server to die ? Note: I would really prefer if this could be done without installing something suid root, for pure beurocratic reasons. I'd be thankful for any help, but if you're going to barf RTFM - _please_ at least give me a hint where to look :-) /Paul --- Paul Svensson psv@ida.liu.se SM5SJS