On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 10:34:46AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > 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.
no X11, but i do need it. is there a way of getting, say, [c]twm configured remotely? i managed to have portupgrade finish succesfuully last night without breaking anything. there were 33 things that failed, 0 skipped, and More than 450 ports successfully upgraded. i checked with pkgdb -Favf; it worked. what failed was related to the x11 drivers. the machine is a 2009 dell 550 inspiron. i do not want to do too much with X so as to avoid some kind of crash that will break everything. still, it would be nice to have X for /root and for the UPS. the server and telco "modem" is my connection to the outside world so i don't want to take too many risks. but now that everything is up to date [port-wise], now what? gary > > 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) -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"