From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 8 04:36:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DDE016A4CE for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2003 04:36:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (ns2.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B66743FE1 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2003 04:36:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 4.24 #1 (FreeBSD 4.9)) id 1AISKF-000Hne-2r by authid ; Sat, 08 Nov 2003 15:36:23 +0300 Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 15:36:23 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: Lewis Thompson Message-ID: <20031108123623.GB65354@ns2.wananchi.com> References: <20031107142750.GA833@lewiz.org> <20031107145643.GB87381@ns2.wananchi.com> <20031107150119.GA1123@lewiz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AhhlLboLdkugWU4S" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031107150119.GA1123@lewiz.org> X-Disclaimer: Any views expressed in this message,where not explicitly attributed otherwise, are mine alone!. X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.4i (2003-03-19) X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 3:32PM up 6:09, 2 users, load averages: 0.55, 0.53, 0.49 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: sftp mount? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 12:36:31 -0000 --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Lewis Thompson [20031107 18:01]: wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:56:43PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > * Lewis Thompson [20031107 17:28]: wrote: > > > At my university everything is firewalled and the only way I can > > > transfer files to/from my account is to use sftp -- but that gets qui= te > > > painful after a while. > >=20 > > What do you mean by quite painful? sftp should be very easy to use >=20 > Yeah, it is fairly easy to use but it's still annoying to be doing it. > In reality what I want is to edit the remote files directly. I don't > want to be copying back/forth. It can't really be automated either, > since I'm not doing the same task over and over. >=20 > > Basically you have to ask the folks administering your systems if they > > allow NFS and I doubt it already. >=20 > No, they don't. Pretty much the only thing allowed is ssh/sftp. >=20 > > > Or can anybody suggest any other way I might achieve something simila= r? > > > Bear in mind I am actually restricted to sftp/ssh. > >=20 > > Forget your ideas. Tell us what it is that you want to be doing. >=20 > I want my remote home directory (available just by ssh) to be > transparently available from a local directory :P I don't know how to do that via ssh, but I know how to execute commands remotely via SSH: ssh remote_host -t -A /usr/bin/ee /path/to/some/file =20 Best regards, Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd. =20 PS::REQUEST Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://learn.to/edit_messages http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Odhiambo W. wash(at)wananchi(dot)com . WANANCHI ONLINE LTD (Nairobi, KE) http://www.wananchi.com/email/ . 1ere Etage, Loita Hse, Loita St., Mobile: (+254) 722 743 223 . # 10286, 00100 NAIROBI ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- What the hell, go ahead and put all your eggs in one basket. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Markets are self-correcting. That's why I trust markets more than governments. Governments usually aren't self-correcting, until too late. --Interview with Walter Wriston as reported in Wired 4.10 =20 --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/rONHn7LIsuxjem8RAkp+AKCBH34To0jGisL3oH7Waq7eUrv4RgCeKnPp k3jH9ylIdOnW54Y0H6lRfvo= =awkg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S--