Re: remote admin

Eric Bambach
2005-04-14T21:02:15Z

On Thursday 14 April 2005 02:47 pm, qwms-avib@dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> Eric Bambach wrote:
> > Ssh is the de facto standard for remote administration
> > but It lacks the ability to give you a GUI interface.
>
> Getting a GUI interface for ssh is easy. Simply start
> ssh from an xterm, login to the remote server and execute
> xterm. This will cause a remote xterm to appear on your
> local X display.
>
> Instead of a remote xterm, you can start a remote
> window manager (or other X application) the same way.

Hehe, I stand corrected. I suppose *I* usually think of it as more of a
console administration app. Anyways, this is not a good solution if you are
logging in from a windows or "other" OS based machine. You would have to
install a local X-server which may or may not be practical or useful.

Additionally, as others pointed out you can tunnel X connections over SSH.
While this is true the X protocol by itself is quite heavy and lag and
interactivity will be less than spectacular on anything less than 10Mbit.
This is why I suggested NX Server for GUI administration because it does some
quite spectacular compression and caching I havent seen in other projects
(though I admit I havent done alot of diggin on the subject, only raw X,
lbxproxy, ssh compression, and VNC each of which has its own caveats)
> Cheers,
> Steven
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> All is fine except that I can reliably "oops" it simply by trying to read
> from /proc/apm (e.g. cat /proc/apm).
> oops output and ksymoops-2.3.4 output is attached.
> Is there anything else I can contribute?

The latitude and longtitude of the bios writers current position, and
a ballistic missile.

--Alan Cox LKML-December 08,2000

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