On Tuesday 09 January 2007 01:42, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 20:44 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > There are any number of solutions, the easiest of which is probably to > > > mail yourself a copy of the text directly from B, where you can cut > > > and paste between email messages to get what you want on A. Note that > > > you don't need to download email to be able to send it. > > > > I admit I'm a bit stuck on this one. I've never used Kmail to post mail > > from one machine to another without going anywhere near the Internet, but > > it would be nice to know if it's possible. > > You can do that, but you'll have to set up your own email receiver if > you don't want to send to an existing server. Unless you have a > firewall > blocking outbound connections, a default install should be able > to send mail with something like: > 'mail -s test_message myaddress@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx < text_file' > If you want to use kmail, set it up with a local mailbox (that > won't get anything) and check the 'use local delivery' box - or you > could put your ISP account there. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx Thanks for the help Les. I don't know if I want to mess with the email in case I screw it all up, and besides that I have more than 14 distros that run on machine B, so that setting up the sending of email from machine A to machine B may well be overkill. it's probably best to take the easy option, and use the "save history as" option in KDE's Konsole, then ssh into B from A, and retrieve the saved history file using Gedit for example. this seems to work ok, and not many steps are involved in doing this. I also tried using screen on machine B. Typing dmesg in Konsole gives me the whole output of dmesg, but typing screen first, to open a screen, then typing dmesg only gives me the last 23 lines of dmesg which isn't much use if what you are looking for is earlier on in dmesg, and I didn't see anything in screens man page to see how to workaround this. Screen -h <num>, where I set <num> to 10000 did not make any difference. I still only got the last 23 lines. Anyway thats for another day. Thanks for the reply. Nigel.
