Gnome Terminal and Session management Query

[Ted Roche]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Dan Track <dan.track at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Dan Track <dan.track at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Dan Track <dan.track at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is there something fundamental I'm missing?
>

Maybe.

And maybe it's not clear what you are asking to do. If you want to be
monitoring those 100 devices, there are great tools like Nagios and
Zenoss to give you a single web page to monitor them. For browsing
files on the remote devices, the GNOME desktop has gvfs and fuse built
in so that you can create a remote file folder over the network using
SMB, ssh or ftp.

You mentioned PuTTY. If you want to have consoles set up in advance,
you can create a configuration file in your home directory,
.ssh/config and specify the username, port, special keys or identies,
and much more, looking something like:

Host example.com
User myname
Port 8222
LocalForward 8888 localhost:8888

Then, issuing the command "ssh example.com" will do the equivalent of
the command:

ssh -p 8022 -L8888:localhost:8888 myname at example.com

much more can be found by entering 'man ssh' or 'man ssh_config' and
far more learned at http://www.openssh.org

HTH,


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Ted Roche
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