A/UX, NFS, and remote execution

[Mike Hoegeman]

In article <9846 at apple.Apple.Com> jackie at Apple.COM (Hernan'Jackie' Macapanpan) writes:
>In article <870 at srs.UUCP>, dan at srs.UUCP (Dan Kegel) writes:
>> Does anybody know if A/UX supports Sun's network computing utility called
>> rexd, an RPC server daemon for remote program execution?
>
>	A/UX has the rexecd daemon. It handles rexec calls. Is this what
>	you're lookin' for ?




rexecd (a deamon supplied in BSD releases) is not the same thing as sun's rexd. 
they do the same king of thing (remote execution), but rexd is alot more 
sophisticated than rexecd in that rexd preserves alot more of the clients
environment when  executing remotely than rexecd does.

-mike