I'm trying to nohup a job that executes a remote shell on another host but it breaks as soon as I launch it, and I get the following back to my terminal.

[1] + Stopped (tty input) nohup remsh target_host -l user "ls /proj"

This is the command I'm running.

nohup remsh target_host -l user "ls /proj" &

Does anybody know of any gotchas in running remsh in the background?


Thanks,

Try the -n option.

-n Redirect the input of rsh to /dev/null. You sometimes
need this option to avoid unfortunate interactions
between rsh and the shell which invokes it. For exam-
ple, if you are running rsh and invoke a rsh in the
background without redirecting its input away from the
terminal, it will block even if no reads are posted by
the remote command. The -n option will prevent this.

Thanks RTM it worked