Xserver annoyance

[bonifale]

Hi,

I'm running an Xserver, MI/X 4.2 for Windows from

http://www.microimages.com/mix/,

on my XP machine to run Xterms on my Sparc20 (Sol9). I've created a batch file to remotely launch the application containing various combinations of ...

rsh 10.0.0.23 -lusername "/usr/openwin/bin/xterm -display 10.0.0.10 &"
exit

The xterms launch okay but the DOS window remains active, presumably the rsh has not terminated. It can be closed manualy okay and terminates itself when I close the xterm.

Does anyone know how I can make it close itself once the xterm starts or is there another way to call the remote xterm.

 

[elgrandeperro]

Try rsh with the -n option, to redirect stdin to /dev/null.

gene

 

[bonifale]

Gene,

Thanks for the suggestion but sadly not a solution. The command tool executes and terminates immediately without launching the Xterm

 

[Annihilannic]

This works for me:

[tt]D:\>rsh hostname -l username "/usr/openwin/bin/xterm -display displayhost:1 > /tmp/xterm.out 2>&1 &" [/tt]

Although I would personally choose to use ssh for this sort of thing.

Annihilannic.

 

[bonifale]

Annihilannic,

Many thanks for the that.

Tried the above but it yields 'Ambiguous output redirect'. I'll try some other permutations on this scheme when I get a couple of minutes spare.

Thanks again
Les....