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From: sscott@camdev.UUCP (Steve Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Help with RSH error status return
Message-ID: <201@camdev.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 89 13:54:09 GMT
Reply-To: sscott@camdev.UUCP (Steve Scott)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Motorola, Inc.  Ft. Worth, TX
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If this is too simple (or I should've done a better job
of RTFM) please e-mail responses.  I've got a pretty thick
skin

Anyway,

Assume that I have a simple Bourne shell script (called
dumb_script) on machine B which has one line:

           exit 3

Immediately after running this, echo $? of course says 3

No problem.


But, now assume that another host machine (say A) uses

           rsh B dumb_script

An echo $? after this script always returns a 0 (assuming
that rsh was able to complete properly).  I understand
all of this.  But what I WANT to do is to have 

           rsh B dumb_script

have a return error status equal to the return error status
of the program which ran on machine B (that is, 3 in this
case)

Any hints/tips/ideas/pointers to the proper man pages/etc?




-- 
Steve Scott            UUCP: {killer|texbell}!camdev!sscott
Motorola, Inc.         Telephone : 1-817-232-6317