Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!marque!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!botter!star.cs.vu.nl!maart 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 Lines: 13 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. -- fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, FNDELAY): |Maarten Litmaath @ VU Amsterdam: let's go weepin' in the corner! |maart@cs.vu.nl, mcvax!botter!maart