I cannot figure out how to get the job to detach -- the rsh always waits for the job to finish, which is not what I want. I just want to fire up a command on a remote machine and forget about it.
E.g., the following hangs:
rsh cygwin-machine 'some_command </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &'
(If I got something slightly wrong there, keep in mind that it's an example so you can see what I mean -- I am actually using a script that I have used for years on UNIX machines.)
I got this to work properly by wrapping the remote command with a PERL script that invokes shutdown() on STDIN, STDOUT and STDERR and then close().
I assume this is some kind of bug in Cygwin or in.rshd -- all I have to do on UNIX machines is close() on the same descriptors and the rsh client disconnects as desired. -- Joe Buehler
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