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From: paul@eye.com (Paul B. Booth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: determining original host
Keywords: rsh rlogin xhost hostname
Message-ID: <1991Apr01.141229.18871@eye.com>
Date: 1 Apr 91 14:12:29 GMT
References: <1970@news.tcs.com> <822@tiamat.fsc.com>
Reply-To: paul@eye.com (Paul B. Booth)
Organization: 3D/Eye Inc., Ithaca, NY
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In article <822@tiamat.fsc.com> jim@tiamat.fsc.com ( IT Manager) writes:
>
>Personally, I wish rsh and rlogin would just pass the entire environment, and
>let the remote host set it's own local stuff, with everything else remaining
>the same.
>
If you've got nfs, try using "on."  A command like "on node2 cc ..."  causes
your current working dir to be nfs mounted on node2 and then runs cc there with
your current environment.  When cc's done the mount is undone.  On has a couple
of quirks (root generally can't use it; and pathnames in the command string
resolve to either the local or remote system depending on whether they are full
names or relative to you working dir.), but it accomplishes a lot of stuff that
remsh can't do well.

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