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: > > > > > > 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<kl...@thought.org> 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. because > > >>>of his age (70's) and fraility i don't want to ask him to crawl around > > >>>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. ..... > > > > > > > ssh? > > > > sure. for simple things. but i need to get X going to get my UPS > 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 need 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 you can make more than one ssh connection to a server in case you want e.g. one shell 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 -- 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)
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