On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 02:16:05PM -0400, Maxwell Spangler wrote:
> I'm assuming the "hang" I see is Fvwm waiting for my command (rsh) to go
> off, and start itself correctly before Fvwm returns to regular window
> processing. It seems to run rsh, but sit there waiting for something and
> the only thing I can do is move my mouse around.. Can't select windows,
> can't kill anything with the mouse, etc.
Actually, I believe the hang is that rsh doesn't supress the std file
handles properly and ends up sleeping on the socket reading nothing.
Try redirecting stdin/out/err from/to /dev/null.
I'd cut and paste it, but I switched to ssh long ago and haven't looked
back. (Compression over a pokey modem is wonderful... it even
compresses Xprotocol pretty well.)
> Well, this is my home network, only connected to the outside world via a
> rare PPP connection. As such, security isn't much of a concern, but were
> I to be doing this on the internet or a more populated network, yes, ssh,
> would be a great idea. Thanks for the suggestion.
I run ssh from home, partly for security, partly for ease of use.
> I'm trying to use rsh to start an xterm on the remote system so that as
> much of the resource (memory/cpu) usage is on the remote, and only the
> display is on my local system. Essentially, I do a lot of work on the SCO
> system and I want to use my Linux system as an Xterminal. I figured rsh
> to start an xterm was just as good as any way..
Yep ('cept for rsh's security and a bad mix with X's security), though
you do have to ensure the file handles are all closed or rsh will sleep
forever.
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Received on Thu May 14 1998 - 13:40:11 BST