From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 5 7:16:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gargoyle.apana.org.au (brisba6.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.66.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E90E337BA38 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 07:16:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by gargoyle.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA21173 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 01:16:45 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner.apana.org.au(203.3.126.132), claiming to be "ROADRUNNER" via SMTP by gargoyle.apana.org.au, id smtpdR21169; Mon Mar 6 01:16:34 2000 Message-ID: <015d01bf86b5$c2f0d970$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> From: "Doug Young" To: Subject: Remote Control Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 01:16:09 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'd appreciate some advice / comments on running applications on a FreeBSD machine from other machines on the LAN & even over the internet if possible. I realize some things can be done using good old telnet, but occasionally I find things that don't respond ... eg "/stand/sysinstall" only gets so far and refuses to take any notice. I figure at least some of the problem is related to the inability of my telnet setup to recognize colors, but I don't know if there's a way around that & if thats the only limiting factor in running applications remotely. I also tried a few X-window servers in MS Windows boxes but all the ones I've tried have proved far too messy to configure / use / license.... seems those sorts of things are far more trouble than they are worth. The VNC thing is somewhat better, but from what I've seen of it I feel its still too fiddly. IS there a way to run EVERYTHING in a non-X FreeBSD system from elsewhere using only telnet ?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message