Rsh help

[Gordon_3]

Hi all,

Has written a simple shell script to rsh to a machine and that cmd will expect a user input, however, no matter I tried "rsh -n" or simply "rsh" , somehow seems the script keep answer /dev/null to the input ( say it only accept Yes / No ), so the script continue to loop, requesting valid input and can't stop unless a kill. Any hints on this situation.

Don

[Rajesh SB]

Hi,

By defining trap in the script like
# trap "exit " 15. You can come out from the script using ctl+c, instead of killing explicitly.

Regards,
Rajesh

[Steven E. Protter]

I think the script on the target server needs an environment. Perhaps the TERM variable or some stty commands so the read command will work properly.

Perhaps you could upload your current script.

SEP

[Bob_Vance]

What OS?
What version?
Show us your script.
Exactly the command that you are using to execute it.

'rsh' is restricted shell on HPUX.

This is an HPUX forum.
Are you doing 'rsh' on Linux?
Or are you really doing 'remsh' on HPUX.

A simple script reading input worked fine for me on HPUX 11.11 using 'remsh'.


bv