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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Remote shell question
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Date: 1 Feb 91 19:56:07 GMT
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?In <1991Feb1.125425.14866@cbnews.att.com> smk@cbnews.cb.att.com (Stephen M. Kennedy) writes:
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?>I want to start up a process in the background on a remote machine using
?>remsh (sysV) or rsh (bsd), e.g.,
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?>	remsh/rsh remote-host 'sleep 30 > /dev/null 2>&1 &'

Try the -n option to rsh.
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	Root Boy Jim Cottrell <rbj@uunet.uu.net>
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