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Disabling Autolaunch
Changing the Remote Shell Command
Some environments require you to create your own autolaunching command.
You might do this, for example, if your remote shell command
doesn’t provide the security that your site requires.
If you create your own autolaunching command, you must use the tvdsvr –
callback and –set_pw command-line options.
If you’re not sure whether rsh (or remsh on HP computers) works at your
site, try typing “rsh hostname” (or “remsh hostname”) from an xterm window,
where hostname is the name of the host on which you want to invoke the
remote process. If the process doesn’t just run and instead this command
prompts you for a password, you must add the host name of the host computer
to your .rhosts file on the target computer.
For example, you can use the following combination of the echo and telnet
commands:
echo %D %L %P %V; telnet %R
After telnet establishes a connection to the remote host, you can use the
cd and tvdsvr commands directly, using the values of %D, %L, %P, and %V
that were displayed by the echo command; for example:
cd directory
tvdsvr –callback hostname:portnumber –set_pw password
If your computer doesn’t have a command for invoking a remote process,
TotalView can’t autolaunch the tvdsvr and you must disable both single
server and bulk server launches.
For information on the rsh and remsh commands, see the manual page
supplied with your operating system.
Changing Arguments
You can also change the command-line arguments passed to rsh (or whatever
command you use to invoke the remote process).
For example, if the host computer doesn’t mount the same file systems as
your target computer, tvdsvr might need to use a different path to access
the executable being debugged. If this is the case, you can change %D to
the directory used on the target computer.
If the remote executable reads from standard input, you cannot use the –n
option with your remote shell command because the remote executable
receives an EOF immediately on standard input. If you omit the –n command-line
option, the remote executable reads standard input from the
xterm in which you started TotalView. This means that you should invoke
tvdsvr from another xterm window if your remote program reads from standard
input. The following is an example:
%C %R "xterm –display hostname:0 –e tvdsvr \
–callback %L -working_directory %D –set_pw %P \
–verbosity %V"
92 Chapter 5: Setting Up Remote Debugging Sessions