Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!uunet!tdatirv!sarima From: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look Subject: Re: Launching remote X applications Message-ID: <65@tdatirv.UUCP> Date: 25 Jun 91 15:55:22 GMT References: Reply-To: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Organization: Teradata Corp., Irvine Lines: 16 In article Michael.Oconnor@West.Sun.COM (Michael O'Connor - SE Sacramento) writes: >Another interesting approach is to use the on(1C) command which uses >rexd(8c) to execute the process on the remote system. On executes >the command remotely but unlike rsh, it maintains the users current >environment and even performs NFS mounts if necessary. On may not >be implemented on all vendors systems however. Yeah, wouldn't that be nice. But it is not always available. Our management here says that on(1C) is a serious security risk and refuses to activate the necessary demon. So I am stuck with a shell script that sets up everything on the far end. -- --------------- uunet!tdatirv!sarima (Stanley Friesen)