Selecting Interactive or Background Processing

You can select which type of processing to use when you enter the xctl command.

Background Processing

The -b option starts each command in the background, and xctl exits without waiting for the commands to finish.

The following example shows the start-up command in the background if you have defined a large number of coservers in your ONCONFIG configuration file:

xctl -b -X= oninit -yX=

Interactive Processing

The -i option displays each remote command as that commands starts. When you enter the end-of-file character (usually CTRL-D), you end execution only for the remote command that is currently running.

Any output that the remote commands generate is preceded by a message that identifies which coserver produced the output.