Starting Remote Jobs

Gregory Kemnitz kemnitz at mitisft.Convergent.COM
Thu May 11 07:13:30 AEST 1989


In article <4266 at ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, ccs013 at castor.ucdavis.edu (Jason) writes:
> In article <815 at usl.usl.edu> pcb at usl.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs) writes:
> >How can I start a remote background job?
> 
> Use the "net" command.
> 
> 
> syntax .... exple...:
> 
> 
> net -m <machine>  '<command string>'  
> 

I have seen at least four different ways of doing this on different machines:

Counterpoint:  nohup remote machine cmd &
Convergent:    nohup rcmd machine cmd &
Berkeley 4.2:  nohup rsh machine cmd &

Now I see that some other UNIX uses "net".  Does any know how V.4 will do it??


Greg Kemnitz



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