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From: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-21 10:29:43


On Oct 21, 2004, at 11:06 AM, Bogdan Costescu wrote:

>>> shell$ /usr/bin/rsh
>>> usage: rsh [-nd] [-l login] host [command]
>>
>> Err... I'm confused. "-n" is listed in the rsh usage message, above.
>
> The order of options on the command line is also important. The usage
> line wants "-n" before "host", while the error message specifies first
> "mpi202" then "-n".

I noticed that as well, but his previous mail indicated that LAM was
able to use rsh properly (it tried to launch hboot on a remote node and
failed due to what looked like a PATH problem on the remote node), so I
took that to mean that the position of -n didn't matter.

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{+} Jeff Squyres
{+} jsquyres_at_[hidden]
{+} http://www.lam-mpi.org/