[Novalug] disassociating an rsh from a process

Sean McGowan scepticanagramwonk at verizon.net
Mon Apr 27 18:32:23 EDT 2009


All,
	I have a problem (more cosmetic than anything else, as I don't like to
see them in the process list) with rsh hanging out when launching other
processes in the background.  The process is a daemon, which does not
belong to my group, so I am unable to 'daemonize' it in the code.  So
basically, the algorithm is this:

foreach node {
	rsh node process &
}

The default shell on this system is tcsh, so I have also tried
rsh node process >& /dev/null &
and 
rsh node 'process >& /dev/null &'

also I have tried both with the -n option as well.

Something I thought of on the way home,
echo 'process >& /dev/null &' | rsh node /usr/bin/tcsh

Might this work?

Thanks,

Sean




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