I don't know if this would work in your case, but I run a linux box on
ham rdio stuff and I use a program on my windows machine called winscp,
It lets me copy and edit files. You can tell it what editor on the
windows machine to use. As I recall, I had to reclass the list of
files, but I can check that for you if you try it. I've never been to
make terminal programs, particularly editors, work with window-eyes.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
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Wallace, ks.
On
Thu, 9 Apr 2015, Christopher-Mark Gilland via Talk wrote:
Guys,
I've got a Linux server which I need to be able to edit a few configuration
files on via SSH. Yeah, I probably could try to look up a way to download
the files to my computer locally, open them in Notepad, edit them, then
reupload them to the server as the modified versions, but then you stand a
chance of ownerships getting kurfunctified, and worse, permissions going
screw on me, thus making me have to chmod everything back to normal. What a
pain in the behaunkis, especially if I don't know the permissions and owner
to start with. The problem I'm having is, whether I use Putty, or any other
SSH terminal client I've so far found, everything works fine. I can use
the mouse pointer or the W E cursor all day long to read the terminal window
in detail, but as soon as I go into nano, or pico, or God forbid, vi/vim,
things start getting kind a weird. As I arrow in all four directions around
the file, I find that what is being read isn't quite normally where my
actual cursor is located. Usually the cursor will be either a line above or
below, or a character before or after. It's quite inconsistent what it
does, so I can't exactly give you a definite pattern. I've been kind of
learning to deal with it, but it's at the point now, where it is becoming
incredibly annoying, and I do mean, incredibly! Obviously, this means, if
I'm not extra extra careful, I'll wind up either deleting something I don't
mean to, uncommenting things I don't need/want to, inserting things where
they don't belong, or worst case, totally booger bugging up the file to the
point where I run whatever is attached to the configuration, and garbage in,
garbage out, bad data in, puke comes out. So, is there really an easy way
to consistently via SSH use a text editer to edit conf files? If not, then
I'm really screwed, I guess, mainly because I don't have the hardware
resources right now to run a full fledged Linux system, and I'm neither at a
position, unfortunately, where I can reliably run a virtual machine either.
Even if I could, the server I need to access isn't on my localhost, so I'd
have to SSH in anyway, one way or another.
Any help is profusely! appreciated.
Chris.
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