Peter's Blog 15.3.2004

Read something about a dselect command, a text..

Read something about a dselect command, a text ui for apt-get. It has decided to install 80M of upgrades which are still in progress. I'll be impressed if it still works. Apt-get is a thing of beauty.

To hide DayNotez categories from people looking..

To hide DayNotez categories from people looking over shoulder, I've set category colour to black background. Makes entries look, well, black on black.

Discovered WebMin.

Discovered WebMin. A web based linux configuration utility. Done the jiggery-pokery to connect to it through SSH so I've disabled SSL in the server itself. Installing a load of modules for it.

Managed to access home router setup page using port..

Managed to access home router setup page using port forwarding in ssh. Used putty, added a tunnel with these settings:

• Remote

• Source Port: 5080

• Destination: 192.168.0.1:80

Then connected mozilla to http://127.0.0.1:5080/.

Laptop plays video CD's, which is more than my xbox..

Laptop plays video CD's, which is more than my xbox can. Have to buy an svideo cable.

Discovered rsync and unison which are tools..

Discovered rsync and unison which are tools for syncing files and directories. unison appears to have better windows support via gtk (which makes it look like a naff tk app). It syncs locally ok and could be a nice way to do nightly backups. To do remote backups requires it to be set up to fork a ssh command. Unfortunately it does not provide good hooks for doing this in the setup file: trying to use plink (a command line version of putty) I get this:

Received unexpected header from the server:
 expected "U" but received "\013".
This is probably because you have different versions of Unison
installed on the client and server machines.

Both appear to be version 2.9.1, the difference appears to be a windows/unix line delimiter problem. Plink has no options to fiddle with this. I might be able to fix it with Cygwin but that is becoming like installing linux on top of windows (I just wanna run ssh without installing 20M of unix environment).

What I really want is an ftp based solution as that would let be publish websites.