usenet@mcdchg.UUCP (03/13/87)
I am trying to associate a controlling terminal with a detached process. To be exact, I want to run a modified version of script (/usr/ucb/script) via an rsh(1) link, in order to have the process that I run have a controlling terminal. The problem is that when I run script, or the modified version (modified only to run a different program), via rsh, ps shows that the remote program and the script both have "?" for controlling terminal. I realize that the manual (tty(4)) ways that if a process has no controlling teminal, that it can open a /dev/tty?? file and it will become the controlling terminal for that process. Nevertheless, it looks like that doesn't work with rsh-ed programs. Anybody have any ideas?? I am trying to get xterm(1), from the X V10R4 distribution, to work via rsh, and xterm seems to need a controlling terminal in order to work correctly (otherwise, when the cshell that it created exits, the xterm hangs as a zombie, I think, and the network connection is left open). If anybody has any idea what is going wrong, semd me mail, since this is probably not of great importance to most people on the net. --chet-- In Real Life: Chet Murthy ARPA: murthy@svax.cs.cornell.edu SnailMail: Chet Murthy Gaslight Village Apts 21-B Uptown Road Ithaca, NY 14850 MaBellNet: (607)-257-5709