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From: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: remote background jobs
Message-ID: <418@avsd.UUCP>
Date: 7 Dec 88 20:36:12 GMT
References: <1103@smidefix.liu.se>
Reply-To: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
Organization: AMPEX Corporation, Redwood City, CA
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In article <1103@smidefix.liu.se> pausv@smidefix.liu.se (Paul Svensson) writes:

>Problem: How do I start a background server process on another machine?

I've had success with the following format :

	rsh hostname "(commmand ; command -flag arg arg) &"

... or

	rsh hostname "(commmand ; command -flag arg arg) &" >& /dev/null

... if you're disinclined towards seeing process IDs ...

>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 :-)

The most educational thing to do in circumstances like this is to just 'play'.
Play with it, make some mistakes, look for patterns, until you've got the
mechanism figured out. It's almost faster than reading the manual sometimes.

>Paul Svensson			psv@ida.liu.se			SM5SJS

-- richard

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