From 61977756c87c5aad51c68c15f06f0507e44b6073 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nate Straz Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:35:17 +0000 Subject: Add note to qarsh man page about closing file descriptors on backgrounded commands so qarsh exits. --- qarsh.1 | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/qarsh.1 b/qarsh.1 index cf3d35a..55f3335 100644 --- a/qarsh.1 +++ b/qarsh.1 @@ -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) -- cgit