Re: How to display CLI output on another machine

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On Sunday 07 January 2007 15:13, Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Sunday 07 January 2007 18:38, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > Nigel Henry wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > If you do all your work from a machine running X (i.e.
> > ssh to the others in terminal windows) you should be
> > able to cut/paste directly from any window to any
> > other.  Aside from being very handy for commands you
> > want to repeat across machines, you should be able to
> > grab the output of anything to paste into mail as long
> > as it fits in the window or the terminal scroll-back
> > size.
> >
> > --
> >    Les Mikesell
> >     lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
>
> Apologies for my ignorance but I'm not having much
> success here.
>
> X is running on both machines, which are both next to one
> another. At the moment I have text on KDE's Konsole on
> machine B. I need to be able to see this text on machine
> A. I can ssh into machine B from machine A with no
> problem. I can then type "konsole", but this just opens
> an empty konsole. What I'm looking for is to display
> what's on machine B's Konsole on machine A.
>
> Sorry that I'm not terribly clued up.
>
> Nigel.

ssh -Y to B from A then fire up your KDE konsole and do your 
work then you will have the information on B on the screen 
on A and then paste it into your e-mail on A.


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