phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (09/23/90)
Why would you want to run rlogin (usually TWO processes) if it works to simply run xterm on the remote host? --Phil Howard, KA9WGN-- | Individual CHOICE is fundamental to a free society <phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> | no matter what the particular issue is all about.
mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (09/24/90)
> Why would you want to run rlogin (usually TWO processes) if it works > to simply run xterm on the remote host? Well, the remote xterm doesn't always work, but that wasn't the question you asked. (And sometimes, even though a terminal emulator is available remotely, one wants the local one for some reason - as, for example, if the local machine is a DECstation, the remote is a Sun, and one wants some feature that only dxterm has.) Why? Well, in my experience at least, it distributes the load differently. Running a terminal emulator on machine A and an rlogin from A to B within it loads B less than running the emulator directly on B. If B is slower than A this means that the rlogin is a win. (Presumably if B is loaded less then A is loaded more, but A was enough faster than B in my case that I didn't notice any difference on A.) der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Rlogin also allows one to suspend the rlogin and return to the "local" host, though presumably one could just start a local window.)
petej@ssg0.pharmacia.com (Peter M. Jansson) (09/24/90)
In article <9009231709.AA03212@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU writes: >> Why would you want to run rlogin (usually TWO processes) if it works >> to simply run xterm on the remote host? > >Well, the remote xterm doesn't always work, but that wasn't the On my system, at least two programs (telnet and u386mon) don't display the characters unless run through an rlogin on an xterm. That is, I start X and I get an xterm (it's release 3, so I don't have xdm); to get the dynamic, near-real-time status display from u386mon, I have to do an rlogin. Doesn't matter if I'm trying to get a display of the local system or a remote system. On the other hand, my rlogin doesn't seem to recognize SIGWINCH, so I can't resize any windows. Therefore, I occaisionally use rlogin for those two programs, and just use an xterm otherwise. Pete.