Tim Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just discovered that my subprocess call with the preexec_fn wasn't doing > what I thought. > If 'machine' value is different than the current machine name, I want to > remsh the command to that machine, but obviously I misunderstood the > preexec_fn arg. > > Should I just put the remsh in the actual command instead of > preexec_fn?
Yes. The preexec_fn is run after the fork() but before the exec(). Ie a new process has been made, but it hasn't started your task yet. For example a classic use of preexec_fn is preexec_fn=os.setsid You seem to be thinking it is pre-pending something to your command line which isn't how it works. -- Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
