How do I use “rsh” without having the rsh hang around until the remote command has completed?
(See note in question 2.7 about what “rsh” we’re talking about.) The obvious answers fail: rsh machine command & or rsh machine ‘command &’ For instance, try doing rsh machine ‘sleep 60 &’ and you’ll see that the ‘rsh’ won’t exit right away. It will wait 60 seconds until the remote ‘sleep’ command finishes, even though that command was started in the background on the remote machine. So how do you get the ‘rsh’ to exit immediately after the ‘sleep’ is started? The solution – if you use csh on the remote machine: rsh machine -n ‘command >&/dev/null /dev/null 2>&1
