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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: running rsh and rcp from perl
Keywords: in the background
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Date: 2 Mar 91 01:46:21 GMT
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In article <27CEF303.10808@orion.oac.uci.edu> meggers@mothra.nts.uci.edu (Mark Eggers) writes:
?While I can do		system "rsh foo \"command here\"";
?
?I cannot run this in a perl script in the background.  The error that comes
?back is		stopped +tty input+

You need the -n option to rsh.
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