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From: gerber@sushi.Solbourne.COM (Andrew Gerber)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Remote xterm strategy
Message-ID: <1990Jan8.232120.13303@Solbourne.COM>
Date: 8 Jan 90 23:21:20 GMT
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Reply-To: gerber@sushi.UUCP (Andrew Gerber)
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This shell script was found in /usr/bin/X11/rcmd on my machine here;
I'm not sure if it's part of the normal X distribution, but it solves
the "extra rsh hanging around" problem and in a easy-to-use way.

-------cut here--------
#! /bin/sh
# This command runs a command remotely in the background, by pointing
# stdout and stderr at /dev/null. (Should we point stdin at /dev/null too?)
# By running this through the Bourne shell at the other end, and
# we get rid of the rsh and rshd which otherwise hand around at either
# end. Hacked from a posting by clyde@emx.utexas.edu to list.xpert
if test $# -lt 2 ; then
        echo Usage: $0 remotehost remotecommand
        exit 1
else
        host=$1
        shift
fi
echo "($*)" '> /dev/null 2>&1 &' | rsh $host /bin/sh &

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