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. _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared.
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