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authorNate Straz <nstraz@redhat.com>2008-08-12 13:35:17 +0000
committerNathan Straz <nstraz@redhat.com>2008-09-23 09:37:47 -0400
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Add note to qarsh man page about closing file descriptors on backgrounded
commands so qarsh exits.
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@@ -39,5 +39,10 @@ connect to port \fIport\fR instead of the default port of 5008.
.BI \-t " timeout"
sets the number of seconds to wait when the remote host is not
responding to declare the host dead and exit.
+.SH NOTES
+When running remote commands in the background, be sure to close standard
+output and standard error or redirect them to a file on the remote host.
+Qarsh will wait for those file descriptors to close before returning which
+will look like qarsh is not putting the command in the background.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
ssh(1), qacp(1), qarshd(8), btimed(8), btimec(1)