Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!labtam!cnw01!nigel
From: nigel@cnw01.storesys.coles.oz.au (Nigel Harwood)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: rlogin and run a command etc
Message-ID: <1141@cnw01.storesys.coles.oz.au>
Date: 2 Dec 90 05:15:24 GMT
Organization: Coles Myer Ltd., Melbourne, Australia
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Apologies if this is a FAQ but I have up till now not read
this news group (I did read all postings not yet expired).

I have two systems connected via Win TCP/IP Ethernet.

One system is to be used by the users to run all their jobs
irregardless of which machine the job runs on.

I cannot use the remote shell as some of the jobs they run
are COBOL programs which use cursor addressing etc.

Rlogin seemed to be promising as it can be auto-login with
Win TCP/IP.

The problem was that I cannot tell it to run a command as soon as
it has logged in.

Someone pointed out that the TERM variable was exported (nothing
else from the environment sadly).

By a slight fudge I could use TERM and the .login to do the job
but is there a better way ?

I have toyed with getting the source to rlogin but I'd rather not.

Regards
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