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From: tom@ICASE.EDU (Tom Crockett)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Starting remote xterms
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Date: 1 Dec 88 16:25:45 GMT
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>  ... both the local rsh process and the remote rshd would go away
>  after xterm was started.

Just to complicate the discussion, there might be a reason for wanting
to keep the "rsh" around.  It seems that the source code for xterm is littered
with fprintf's to stderr.  If you redirect stderr and stdout for the remote
xterm to /dev/null and dispose of the rsh process, then you wouldn't get any
potential error messages.  If you kept rsh around and don't redirect, then
error messages would come back to your server machine (probably to /dev/console,
if you started rsh from a window manager menu).  But then again, how often does
"xterm" generate errors?  Not very, from my experience.


Tom Crockett

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