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From: a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: waiting for tty input???
Date: 30 Jul 94 00:29:57 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! Communications Corp.
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Keywords: tty
ron@argus.lpl.Arizona.EDU (Ron Watkins) writes:
>Problem is, it seems that on every [rsh] mt rewind command, the script
>pauses and produces a 'waiting for tty input' message.
Try using the -n option. From the rsh manual page:
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BUGS
If you are using csh(1) and put a rsh in the background without redirect-
ing its input away from the terminal, it will block even if no reads are
posted by the remote command. If no input is desired you should redirect
the input of rsh to /dev/null using the -n option.
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cjs
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