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From: brad@bradley.bradley.edu (Bradley E. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Remote shell question
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.145242.16915@bradley.bradley.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 91 14:52:42 GMT
References: <1991Feb1.125425.14866@cbnews.att.com>
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In <1991Feb1.125425.14866@cbnews.att.com> smk@cbnews.cb.att.com (Stephen M. Kennedy) 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.

#include	<stdio.h>
main()
{
	int i;
	for (i=0;i<20;i++) {
		close(i);
	}
	i = fork();
	if(i) 
		exit(0);
	execl("/usr/openwin/demo/xterm","bradley", "-ls", "-sb", "-fn","9x15", 0);
}