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From: decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Re: Starting Remote Jobs
Message-ID: <10650055@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Date: 1 Jun 89 21:18:32 GMT
References: <191@sopwith.UUCP>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> |> net -m <machine>  '<command string>'  
> 
> | Counterpoint:  nohup remote machine cmd &
> | Convergent:    nohup rcmd machine cmd &
> | Berkeley 4.2:  nohup rsh machine cmd &
> 
>     ns hostname  [-l user password] "commands"

The reason for these differences is that the SVID requires a command
named "rsh", which is a restricted version of the Bourne shell.

Therefore, when adding a new command for networking, one can't call
it "rsh" and still remain SVID conformant.

In HP-UX, we call it "remsh".

Dave Decot
decot%hpda@hplabs.hp.com