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- From: x41@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Werner Guenther)
- Subject: Re: 'rcmd' to AIX System
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.195724.1192@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
- Organization: University of Heidelberg (Germany)
- References: <tkevans.724784400@eplrx7.es.dupont.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 19:57:24 GMT
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- In article <tkevans.724784400@eplrx7.es.dupont.com> tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.com writes:
- >SunOS and some other UNIX's have an 'rcmd' command, which does:
- >
- >rcmd - run a remote command in the background, without
- > stdin, stdout, stderr.
- >
- >
- >This works well from Sun to Sun, to do things like run xload from
- >a remote system and display it on your local one. Good for people
- >who need to watch one or more remote systems load.
- >
- >When using 'rcmd' to remotely execute commands on an RS/6000 running
- >AIX 3.2.3, however, you get *two* instantiations of your command.
- >For example, the following command generates two info displays on
- >the local display:
- >
- >rcmd aixhost info -l techlib
- >
- >You can kill off one of them, leaving the other working just fine.
- >Kinda a bother.
-
- Well, I had the same problem. The solution was to change the '/bin/sh'
- string in $rshargs in '/bin/ksh' and the problem disappeared.
-
- Hope it helps,
- Werner
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