Unix Shell - Getting rsh on Solaris to return without waiting

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Getting rsh on Solaris to return without waiting - no luck with the FAQ's method

William

2007-02-16, 1:17 pm

Here's what I've tried so far (variations on what I found in
the Unix FAQ: rsh machine -n 'command >&/dev/null </dev/null &')

$ rsh linux7 -n -l builder "cd /opt/builds ; ./BuildEm >&/dev/null
</dev/null &"
[1] 25630
<and here it hangs until BuildEm is done>

Also tried this:
$ rsh linux7 -n -l builder "cd /opt/builds ; ./BuildEm >&/dev/null
</dev/null &" &

Same results.

Any suggestions?

-Wm

William

2007-02-16, 7:16 pm

"William" <Reply@NewsGroup.Please> wrote in message
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> Here's what I've tried so far (variations on what I found in
> the Unix FAQ: rsh machine -n 'command >&/dev/null </dev/null &')
>
> $ rsh linux7 -n -l builder "cd /opt/builds ; ./BuildEm >&/dev/null
> </dev/null &"
> [1] 25630
> <and here it hangs until BuildEm is done>
>
> Also tried this:
> $ rsh linux7 -n -l builder "cd /opt/builds ; ./BuildEm >&/dev/null
> </dev/null &" &
>
> Same results.

Finally worked out a solution:

$ rsh linux7 -n -l builder "( cd /opt/builds ; ./BuildEm ; )\
>&/dev/null </dev/null &"

With both commands, cd and BuildMe, wrapped up in a single process,
and that process's stdout/stdin/stderr redirected it comes right
back as nice as you please.

-Wm