"Nick Craig-Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tim Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> >> 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
Thanks much to you and Michael H. for the great explanations. Now everything is working fine, and I understand subprocess a little better! --Tim Arnold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
