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I've been trying to get the exit status of commands executed via rsh.
No matter what status the remote command exits with, rsh always exits
with a status of 0.  Is there a way to get rsh to report the status
that the remote command exits with?  If not, any ideas for a work
around?  Can ssh do this?

Thanks in advance for any help,

Al

Quote:> I've been trying to get the exit status of commands executed via rsh.
> No matter what status the remote command exits with, rsh always exits
> with a status of 0.  Is there a way to get rsh to report the status
> that the remote command exits with?  If not, any ideas for a work
> around?  Can ssh do this?

Workaround:

and parse the result for the number at the end...
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Guillaume Dargaud
Colorado State University - Dept of Atmospheric Science
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  "A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once."

$ ssh -V
OpenSSH_2.9p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090602f
$ ls /foo
/bin/ls: /foo: No such file or directory
$ echo $?
1
$ ssh localhost ls /foo
ls: /foo: No such file or directory
$ echo $?
1
$ man ssh
[SNIP]
     The session terminates when the command or shell in on the remote machine
     exists and all X11 and TCP/IP connections have been closed.  The exit
     status of the remote program is returned as the exit status of ssh.
[SNIP]

Martien
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Quote:>Hello All,

>I've been trying to get the exit status of commands executed via rsh.
>No matter what status the remote command exits with, rsh always exits
>with a status of 0.  Is there a way to get rsh to report the status
>that the remote command exits with?  If not, any ideas for a work
>around?  Can ssh do this?

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