From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 22 08:34:49 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A9721065696 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:34:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18D658FC1F for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:34:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from slackbox.erewhon.net (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o7M8YktH053408; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:34:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.erewhon.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6F949BAA6; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:34:46 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:34:46 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20100822083446.GB10811@slackbox.erewhon.net> References: <20100820213828.GB71642@thought.org> <20100821000740.GB72182@thought.org> <4C6FBA80.6050103@gmail.com> <20100821231317.GA52873@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100821231317.GA52873@thought.org> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: anybody onlist know about KVM stuff? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:34:49 -0000 --kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 04:13:17PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 06:37:36AM -0500, Depo Catcher wrote: > >=20 > >=20 > > On 8/20/2010 7:07 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > >On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 06:45:11PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > > >>On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > >> > > >>>of my three tower cases still linked by wires so i can "click-over" > > >>>to each and use my one screen and keyboard, my server > > >>>[ethic|ns1.thought.org] has a bad wire to my keyboard. so i really > > >>>cannot do much on ethic. > > >>> > > >>>i've crawled down under 8 or 9 times and messed with various wires. > > >>>that was extremely hard as fruitless. (things were|everything WAS) > > >>>working fine until i added my battery backup. the guy who helped me > > >>>with that 700-pound beast must have gotten something mixed up. beca= use > > >>>of his age (70's) and fraility i don't want to ask him to crawl arou= nd > > >>>under there (&c). the two boxes that are working are impossible for= me > > >>>to pull out and look at. hopefully there are a couple freebsd types > > >>>who rely on kvm wires to do serious work and can give me some clues. > > >>> > > >>/usr/ports/sysutils/synergy > > >> > > > > > > this looks very interesting, thank you. the catch is that it > > > depends on X. i don't have X installed on the server. ..... > > > > >=20 > > ssh? > >=20 >=20 > sure. for simple things. but i need to get X going to get my UPS=20 > set up. also, to properly upgrade things. i was upgrading via > ssh and something broke. it took an hour of messing around to get > ethic back up, fsck'd , and mail working. You just said two things that seem to contradict each other. You said you n= eed to get X going to get the UPS set up, but earlier you said you don't have X installed on the server? Why would you need X to "properly upgrade things?" The upgrading of both the OS and ports works primarily with command-line tools. Do you realize that y= ou can make more than one ssh connection to a server in case you want e.g. one she= ll to make run programs in and another to keep an eye on things. If you don't have X set up on the server, you should use ssh (or telnet if = you have a trusted network). If you do have X set up on the server, you can use the net/vnc port to view the server's X11 screen on another machine. And ssh can also do X forwarding. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkxw4SYACgkQEnfvsMMhpyUP1wCgk7B4dsWJxl2FvcDWYICD991M 2KQAnRr/+vYpnQpaEgBXTFYdCnLFJboV =RXSy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R--