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From: rodgers@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.edu (R. P. C. Rodgers, M.D.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: how to force rsh to exit with status of remote command
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Date: 3 Jun 91 05:50:05 GMT
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Dear Fellow Netlanders,

Reading the manual pages concerned with rsh and experimentation thus
far fail to show how rsh can be made to exit with the status of the command
it is executing on a remote host (if indeed this is possible...).
The rsh always seems to exit with a status of 0, even if the command on the
remote hosts fails.

Thanks in advance for any pointers/solutions.

Cheerio, Rick Rodgers
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