On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 18:24 +0100, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote: > El Domingo, 7 de Enero de 2007 18:09, Nigel Henry escribió: > > I can ssh into my other machine ok, and can edit files, etc, which is no > > problem. > > > > What I would like to do is to have access to what is currently displayed on > > the CLI (Konsole) on machine B. As an example. I run apt-get update, then > > apt-get dist-upgrade on machine B, which runs to completion. The history is > > still on the CLI. I now need to post the history from the CLI on machine B > > to a mailing list. The email client (Kmail) is on machine A. > > > > Is there a way to display the history that's on the CLI on machine B on > > machine A, so that I can simply highlight the text, then paste it to Kmails > > composer on machine A? > > > > Both machines are next to one another, but at the moment I have to save the > > CLI history on machine B as a text file, ssh into B from A, and use nano to > > display the text file, before I can highlight, and paste the text into > > Kmails composer. > > > > Nigel. > > Well, If I didn't misunderstand your scenario, what if you use, for instace >> > in order to redirect output of machine B and then copy it to machine A? By > scp or whatever. > That's to say, using your example above: 'apt-get update && apt-get > dist-upgrade >> foo.txt' > > Maybe you could use 'screen -RD', which will allow you to see what happened on > machine B even if you're not in front of the computer of machine A, or just > machine A is not turned on. > I supposed you to know how screen works, don't you? > > Hope that helps. Or if you want it on the terminal and in a file you can use the tee command. -- ======================================================================= "I've got some amyls. We could either party later or, like, start his heart." -- "Cheech and Chong's Next Movie" ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
