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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Help with RSH error status return
Message-ID: <2238@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 14 Jul 89 19:10:12 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >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?

The only pointer is to the code, which I just checked; there's no way to
do it.  "rsh", at least in the 4.3BSD and 4.3-tahoe versions (from which
most if not all other versions are derived) always exits with an exit
status of 0, 1, or 2; it pays no attention to the exit status of the
remote command (it may not even be able to *get* that exit status; a
quick check of the RSHD(8C) man page doesn't indicate that the daemon
even provides that to "rsh").