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From: meggers@mothra.nts.uci.edu (Mark Eggers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: running rsh and rcp from perl
Keywords: in the background
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Date: 2 Mar 91 00:34:11 GMT
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I've got a quick question.

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+

What I would like to do is copy a file from the remote site, and execute
the entire script from cron.

Thoughts ??

Script is being run on a sparc (perl 3.44) talking to a Sequent.

thanks for any ideas . . . . /mde/