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From: alanr@mit-amt (Alan Ruttenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Remote shell command on Unix, originating from Macintosh
Message-ID: <3637@mit-amt>
Date: 14 Mar 89 21:18:15 GMT
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
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It would be nice if one could use Aufs as a method to execute a shell
command on a unix machine. Why, it should be easy to extend Aufs to
check for the writing of a file with a magic name, and, when this file
were written, forking off a shell to run it, perhaps deleting the
file, or rewriting it with status when the process exits, as a signal
that the process is done.

I would really like to be able to manipulate our vaxes under program
control on our macintoshes. Has anybody done something like this, or
if not, is there someone familiar enough with aufs to give me pointers
on how to do the modification I've suggested above.

-Alan Ruttenberg
alanr@ems.media.mit.edu (MIT Media Lab)