On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Greg Earle wrote:

> 	foreach i ( machine1 machine2 machine3 )
> 	? echo '<root password>' | rsh $i "sudo sh /etc/init.d/syslog start"
> 	? end
> 
>     This has always worked fine for me in the past.  But now, it completes
>     the first iteration, and then it stalls and I find the remote commands
>     have turned into unreaped Zombies:

Just a thought, but have you tried rsh -n?

cjs
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