Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!bu.edu!nntp-read!jc From: jc@raven.bu.edu (James Cameron) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Problems rsh'ing Message-ID: Date: 10 May 91 22:05:37 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Distribution: comp Organization: What do you mean 'That *can't* be done????' Lines: 45 Systems: Both are SunOS 4.1.1 Problem: What I would like to do is rsh into another machine and startup xbiff on this display. Now, this is what happens when I execute the rsh command: -jc- [formant: ~] % rsh raven "setenv DISPLAY formant:0;xbiff" & [1] 3383 -jc- [formant: ~] % [1] + Stopped (tty input) rsh raven setenv DISPLAY formant:0;xbiff -jc- [formant: ~] % fg rsh raven setenv DISPLAY formant:0;xbiff I thought it might have been my shell startup files, so I simply moved it for testing purposes, but this did not help. I realize it must be something simple which I am forgetting, but I can't think of what it could be. I have already done an 'xhost raven' and when I do a fg to put it in the foreground, there are no error messages. Here's the head of my .cshrc file: set path = ( /usr/bin /usr/local/X11/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/ucb . /u4/home/jc /u4/home/jc/bin) if ( ! $?prompt) exit setenv MANPATH /smg/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/X11/man:/usr/man So, I don't believe it *could* be my start up file. Any ideas? jc -- -- James Cameron (jc@raven.bu.edu) Signal Processing and Interpretation Lab. Boston, Mass (617) 353-2879 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "But to risk we must, for the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. For the man or woman who risks nothing, has nothing, does nothing, is nothing." (Quote from the eulogy for the late Christa McAuliffe.)