Re: KDE, FreeBSD fish
On Monday 06 December 2004 06:37 pm, Adam Smith wrote: I've used Konqueror many times before to connect from abroad to my machine at home using fish://. This isn't answering your question, but: Why would you be using fish:// instead of sftp://? Think of fish as a workaround for systems where you have SSH access but there is no SFTP server running. This is not true on (even halfway recent) FreeBSD systems where SFTP is enabled by default. Anyway, if you're dead set on using it, see if you can enabled verbose logging either on the client or the server. Fish works by ssh'ing to a shell on your system and running cd, ls, cat, and so on to get directory listings and the contents of files. If there is a problem with one of these commands, then there you go. -- Kirk Strauser pgpOR9NljvzdK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: KDE, FreeBSD fish
Adam Smith wrote: I've used Konqueror many times before to connect from abroad to my machine at home using fish://. Sometimes this works, and sometimes it doesn't. I've had several reinstallations on my laptop over the last few months for a few various reasons, and I've noticed that on some installations it 'just works' and on some it doesn't. I'm connecting from KDE 3.3 on FreeBSD 5.3 to a FreeBSD 5.2.1 machine. All I get in my output in the status bar is 'Connecting...' before it eventually times out. Yup, I can SSH in normally from this location. Fish just doesn't work. So is this feature dodgy as far as anyone knows? It's a real pain in the arse when it doesn't work, because fish is extraordinarily handy for copying files using a GUI without having to implement something like FTP. So how irritating when it doesn't work :-) PS: I've never been so sure as to where to post queries like this -- freebsd-questions or one of the KDE mailing lists, or both. But I guess it can't hurt to post to either. And I choose here :) KBear (/usr/ports/ftp/kbear) support sftp - so does gFTP (/usr/ports/ftp/gftp) -- Best regards, Chris Some people manage by the book, even though they don't know who wrote the book or even what book. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE, FreeBSD fish
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 07:02:08PM -0600, Kirk Strauser said: On Monday 06 December 2004 06:37 pm, Adam Smith wrote: I've used Konqueror many times before to connect from abroad to my machine at home using fish://. This isn't answering your question, but: Why would you be using fish:// instead of sftp://? Think of fish as a workaround for systems where you have SSH access but there is no SFTP server running. This is not true on (even halfway recent) FreeBSD systems where SFTP is enabled by default. Because it's easier than enabling SFTP on a number of hosts :) I have found in playing around that *sometimes* it works and *sometimes* it doesn't. I have used debug mode for sshd on my broken box and fish:// passes the username correctly, but still gets an auth fail. Strange. Works in other places. Unfortunately I don't have any conclusive results leading me to a logical and replicable problem, but I still might report it as a bug. Anyway, if you're dead set on using it, see if you can enabled verbose logging either on the client or the server. Fish works by ssh'ing to a shell on your system and running cd, ls, cat, and so on to get directory listings and the contents of files. If there is a problem with one of these commands, then there you go. And that's why I like fish -- cos it doesn't need anything special running to connect to a remote host! :) -- Adam Smith Internode : http://www.internode.on.net Phone : (08) 8228 2999 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE, FreeBSD fish
Hello, On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 02:26:09PM +1030 or thereabouts, Adam Smith wrote: And that's why I like fish -- cos it doesn't need anything special running to connect to a remote host! :) You like fish? Even with that nasty bug in KDE which makes any kind of work with files with size lower than 1024 bytes impossible? That applies also to sftp as I've heard. And as it seems there is noone in KDE team to fix this bug (possibly kio stuff), guys across the river in Gentoo Linux distro have decided to take matters into their hands and at least they have been able to fix sftp kio problem with such files. Maybe this is indication that sftp is more useful than fish. Cheers, Martin -- martin hudec * 421 907 303 393 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.aeternal.net Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pgp1N6PrBGX3L.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: KDE, FreeBSD fish
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 02:26:09PM +1030, Adam Smith wrote: I have found in playing around that *sometimes* it works and *sometimes* it doesn't. I have used debug mode for sshd on my broken box and fish:// passes the username correctly, but still gets an auth fail. Strange. Works in other places. Sometimes *sftp* fails when your ssh login is chatty -- maybe fish suffers from the same problem. Check to see whether you have fortune, nfrm, or other such outputting programs on that host in your login scripts. HTH, --Stijn -- Help Wanted: Telepath. You know where to apply. pgpl3Fj86cfde.pgp Description: PGP signature
