Starting Remote Jobs

[Dave Decot]

> 
> |> net -m <machine>  '<command string>'  
> 
> | Counterpoint:  nohup remote machine cmd &
> | Convergent:    nohup rcmd machine cmd &
> | Berkeley 4.2:  nohup rsh machine cmd &
> 
>     ns hostname  [-l user password] "commands"

The reason for these differences is that the SVID requires a command
named "rsh", which is a restricted version of the Bourne shell.

Therefore, when adding a new command for networking, one can't call
it "rsh" and still remain SVID conformant.

In HP-UX, we call it "remsh".

Dave Decot
decot%hpda at hplabs.hp.com