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- From: DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU (Dan Wing)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Starting remote process over Decnet?
- Message-ID: <01GT61BQ3EHE00ADU9@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 00:23:38 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- Organization: The Internet
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- Bruce Rosen, brosen@bbn.com, writes:
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- >Is there some system service that supports starting a process on a different,
- >but DECnet connected, VMS machine? It would be something like a LIB$SPAWN,
- >but would take hostname, userid, and password, as necessary arguments.
- >
- >What I'm looking for is a DECnet equivalent of the TCP/IP "rexec" system call.
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- The TASK object can do this for you; however, many system managers disable
- the TASK object. You could also setup DECnet objects between the nodes which
- would give you the desired effect (see HELP SET OBJECT in NCP).
-
- -Dan Wing, dwing@uh01.colorado.edu or wing_d@ucolmcc.bitnet (DGW11)
- Systems Administrator, University Hospital, Denver
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