Return codes using rsh (remote shell) on Solaris

Question

I am executing a Unix script which does a remote shell call (via rsh) to another script on a remote machine (I am actually executing this from a Java app). The remote script sends a return code when run locally, however, how can I get the calling rsh script to get that return code?
If I do the following in the rsh script:
rsh -l resdev morph "/dev/bin/remote_script"
rc=$?
echo "$rc\n"
then the return code that I get is not actually the return code from the remote_scrpit, but it is the return code from the rsh command that is 0 (success) because the rsh command actually executed successfully even though the remote_script could've returned something other than success. How can I get the return code from the remote_script passed back to the rsh calling script? I need to ensure that remote_script executed successfully.
Jan Miller
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202-237-9584

Answer 1

Hi,
If you have control over the remote script then put as the last line :-
echo "Run OK" >&2
On calling Script (or Java Process):
rsh -l resdev morph "/dev/bin/remote_script" 2> rc.file
(or pipe stderr to your java process call).
Check the stderr data='Run OK' to see if successful.