Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User's Guide

To Start an Application on Another System Using a Terminal Emulator

There are two ways to use a command line to start an application on another system:

Using rlogin
Using remsh

Using rlogin

When you use rlogin, you use your terminal emulator to log in to a different (remote) system. You then run the command to start the application on that system.

Use the rlogin command to log in to the system containing the application.
```
rlogin remote_system_name
```
For example:
```
rlogin systemA
```

Type the command to start the application. Use the -display option to send the window back to your display.

For example, assuming your own system's display name is MySystem:0:
```
/usr/bin/X11/xload -label systemA -display MySystem:0
```

Using remsh

The term remsh stands for "remote shell." It provides a one-step way to run an application, since you do not have to log in before running the command.

Type the command:

remsh remote_system_name -n command

The command must include the -display option to send the window back to your display.

For example:

remsh systemA -n /usr/bin/X11/xload -display MySystem:0