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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Starting remote process over Decnet?
- Date: 9 Jan 1993 13:23:18 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- Message-ID: <1imjk6INNg7a@gap.caltech.edu>
- References: <lkjpfvINN6r6@news.bbn.com>
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- In article <lkjpfvINN6r6@news.bbn.com>, brosen@BBN.COM (Bruce L. Rosen) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >Is there such a thing?
-
- Yes. It's called DECnet TASK-TO-TASK communications, and is documented in the
- NETWORKING manual. You specify the task as:
- node"username password"::TASK=objectname
- For security reasons, these days the object will generally have to be made
- known to DECnet (via the SET OBJECT command of NCP).
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
-
- Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
- unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
-