remsh strange behavior?

[Michael Anderson_14]

The command: which aCC works fine when run on the remote machine directly but when I try

remsh remotehost -l username -n "which aCC"

I get aCC: Command not found.

The strange this is that

remsh remotehost -l username -n "which cc"

works fine, and returns the expected results. I have worked around this problem by using whereis instead of which, but what am I missing here? Is this expected behaviour?

[Sridhar Bhaskarla · Accepted solution]

Hi,

aCC is ansi C++ compiler and it has to be purchased and installed seperately. If it is installed, then it has to be in the default path as remsh doesn't execute the user's profile.

cc is available in the default path.

-Sri

[Umapathy S]

It is a strange error. If aCC is not installed, it will say

no aCC in blah blah

Are you sure, there are no typhos in typing which.

Umapathy

[Michael Anderson_14]

ok,

after further investigation now it comes down to which returning output I wasn't expecting.

I expected:

no aCC in .....

instead I get

aCC: Command not found.

Is this a change between versions of the OS?

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

I would also look at the shell.

$ aCC
sh: aCC: not found.
$ csh
% aCC
aCC: Command not found.
%

Looks like it is a c shell on the other server.

-Sri

[Umapathy S]

I tried in 10.2, 11 and 11i. The output is

no aCC found in /usr/bin ....

What is your version?

Umapathy

[Michael Anderson_14]

Thanks Sridhar.

The case has been solved. It seems that the C shell returns a different error message than when I run it in Korn or Bourne shells.

Thanks everyone for the help.