How to display CLI output on another machine

[Guillermo Garron]

On 1/7/07, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr> wrote:
> On Sunday 07 January 2007 18:24, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote:
> > El Domingo, 7 de Enero de 2007 18:09, Nigel Henry escribió:
> > > I can ssh into my other machine ok, and can edit files, etc, which is no
> > > problem.
> > >
> > > What I would like to do is to have access to what is currently displayed
> > > on the CLI (Konsole) on machine B. As an example. I run apt-get update,
> > > then apt-get dist-upgrade on machine B, which runs to completion. The
> > > history is still on the CLI.  I now need to post the history from the CLI
> > > on machine B to a mailing list. The email client (Kmail) is on machine A.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to display the history that's on the CLI on machine B on
> > > machine A, so that I can simply highlight the text, then paste it to
> > > Kmails composer on machine A?
> > >
> > > Both machines are next to one another, but at the moment I have to save
> > > the CLI history on machine B as a text file, ssh into B from A, and use
> > > nano to display the text file, before I can highlight, and paste the text
> > > into Kmails composer.
> > >
> > > Nigel.
> >
> > Well, If I didn't misunderstand your scenario, what if you use, for instace
> > >> in order to redirect output of machine B and then copy it to machine A?
> > By scp or whatever.
> > That's to say, using your example above: 'apt-get update && apt-get
> > dist-upgrade >> foo.txt'
>
> I may be wrong, but don't think that will work. I have already run apt-get
> update, and apt-get dist-upgrade, and the upgrade has completed. All I have
> left on the CLI is the output from what has been done. If I run those
> commands again I will have an output showing no further updates.
> >
> > Maybe you could use 'screen -RD', which will allow you to see what happened
> > on machine B even if you're not in front of the computer of machine A, or
> > just machine A is not turned on.
> > I supposed you to know how screen works, don't you?
>
> No I'm not familiar with screen.
>
> Perhaps I didn't explain the problem too well. I need to be able to view what
> is currently displayed on the CLI (KDE's Konsole) on machine B. I am working
> on machine A, and need to view KDE's Konsole on machine B.
>
What you want is to redirect the Console output, across the ssh
connection and not to a file. right?

Just to understand what you want 'cause i do not know how to do that,
if that is the case. But maybe some other.

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Guillermo Garron
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