I am supporting a cross-platform production system in which a perl
script running as a daemon on the unix server remote shells one of the
two NT servers to execute another perl program which is located on
these NT machines. Both NT servers are supposed to be exactly the same
with respect to their hardware configuration as well as the software
installed on them. About 4 weeks ago we noticed that remsh process
that starts on the unix server to invoke perl program on one
particular NT server does not get released/killed/deleted but it works
fine on the other one. With the result we have to manually kill these
remsh services every 2-3 days usually 70 - 100 in number which is such
a pain.

Any clues/tips to help me resolve this problem would be highly
appreciated.

Thanks.

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Request for Question Clarification by duncan2-ga on 28 Jan 2003 14:46 PST

So just to be clear here, the remsh processes on the UNIX host appear
to hang, but only those that are working with one particular NT
server?

Perhaps the -n flag for remsh can help?

Barring that, there are a number of Usenet threads that might relate. 
For example

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=u%239vHogT%23GA.324%40upnetnews03&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dremsh%2Bprocess%2Bhang%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26selm%3Du%25239vHogT%2523GA.324%2540upnetnews03%26rnum%3D1

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=36F65C42.6B36%40rsd.bel.alcatel.be&rnum=8&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dremsh%2Bprocess%2Bhang%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26hl%3Den