remote background jobs

[Maarten Litmaath]

pausv at smidefix.liu.se (Paul Svensson) writes:

\Problem: How do I start a background server process on another machine?
\	 I have tried using rsh, but it refuses to exit when I want it to.

The following example might help:

	rsh machine -n sh -c 'server &'

The `-n' flag connects the stdin of rsh to /dev/null.
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