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From: dougm@ico.isc.com (Doug McCallum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: bug in csh  and  problem with rsh in ISC 386/ix
Message-ID: <1989Dec7.165810.4683@ico.isc.com>
Date: 7 Dec 89 16:58:10 GMT
References: <1888@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu> <1009@dialogic.UUCP>
Reply-To: dougm@ico.isc.com
Organization: Interactive Systems Corporation, Boulder, CO
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In-Reply-To: paul@dialogic.UUCP's message of 4 Dec 89 21:01:26 GMT


   >search order of my path to search /bin first and then /usr/ucb. The manual
   >says that one should link /usr/ucb/rsh to another name like rshell, ok that's
   >a way to do it, but it is somehow not standard and people used to Suns
   >would not be able to guess the new name. 

   It also won't work.  The standard (Berkeley) interpretation of this is
   that when the rsh binary is run as a program not named "rsh" (i.e.  with
   argv[0] something other than "rsh") it takes argv[0] as a machine name
   to connect to.  Thus you can link "rsh" to "dialogic" and type

The rsh in the 386/ix 2.0.2 release does allow calling it "rshell" or
"remsh" for compatibility with a couple of other packages and for
people who want /bin first in their search path and don't want to
change /bin/rsh to some other name.  Any other names than "rsh",
"rshell" or "remsh" work as you described and use the name it was
called with as a hostname.