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From: smk@cbnews.att.com (Stephen M. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Remote shell question
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.170808.24481@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 1 Feb 91 17:08:08 GMT
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Looks like you went to the right college :-)

brad@bradley.bradley.edu (Bradley E. Smith) writes:
>>I want to start up a process in the background on a remote machine using
>>remsh (sysV) or rsh (bsd), e.g.,
>
>>	remsh/rsh remote-host 'sleep 30 > /dev/null 2>&1 &'
>I had this same problem...what I did was to use a 'C' program below.

Bingo!  This is the shell solution to my particular problem

	remsh/rsh remote-host 'sleep 30 <&- >&- 2>&- 7>&- &'

The offending fd #7 showed up in a "/etc/pstat -u pid-of-sleep-process" in
the file section.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Steve Kennedy
smk@cbosgd.att.com
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