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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: remote background jobs
Message-ID: <1776@solo11.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 6 Dec 88 20:57:01 GMT
References: <1103@smidefix.liu.se>
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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pausv@smidefix.liu.se (Paul Svensson) writes:

\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.

The following example might help:

	rsh machine -n sh -c 'server &'

The `-n' flag connects the stdin of rsh to /dev/null.
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