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From: pwolfe@kai.com (Patrick Wolfe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.alliant
Subject: Re: NFS remote execution (Concentrix 5.6)
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Date: 6 Jan 91 16:29:02 GMT
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eschle@forty2.physik.unizh.ch (Patrik Eschle) writes:
>Does anybody know what "NFS remote execution" means?
>
>Patrik Eschle, Physics Institute University of  Zuerich (Switzerland)

It means being able to execute programs where the binary resides on an NFS
mounted filesystem.  Until now, you have had to copy executables to a local
disk before you could run them.

Has Alliant fixed the remote shell script problem in 5.6?  If you have three
shell scripts located on a remote NFS filesystem whose first lines are
"#!/bin/sh", "#!/bin/csh" and "#!/usr/local/bin/perl", will each be directed to
the correct interpretor, or will they still all be fed to the Bourne Shell?

	Patrick Wolfe   (pat@kai.com, kailand!pat)
	System Programmer/Operations Manager, Kuck & Associates
	"Any opinions expressed are my own, not my employers's.
	 Please, don't call my boss and complain ... again."