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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Display output of one xterm on another Post 302212887 by Maureen on Tuesday 8th of July 2008 04:36:27 PM
Old 07-08-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vi-Curious
Setup:
Two users, each likely on Windows PCs, using either putty or SecureCRT to connect to a remote Solaris server. The connection could be either telnet or ssh.


Wanted:
How can the output of one users xterm be directed to the other user so that you can easily allow someone to see what you are doing?


Back in early 2005, someone at work was helping me troubleshoot a problem and he somehow directed his output onto my xterm. All he asked for was my IP address. I don't know if the output was also being displayed for him or not. Around that time, I went overseas on a 2 year assignment. When I got back early last year, I went to the only two people I could think of that I might have been working with back in 2005 and asked them about this. Both said it wasn't them and they didn't know how to do it. I have played around with it a little but have not been able to make it work and I find that it would be pretty useful.

Has anyone here done this, or know how to do it?
I'm the product manager for SecureCRT and there's an undocumented feature in SecureCRT 6.0 and later that allows you to do this. Here are the steps:
  1. In SecureCRT, open the Session Options dialog for the dialog that you want to allow someone else to monitor.
  2. Go to the "Mapped Keys" category and click the "Map a Key" button. For the Function, select "SSH Function" and for the SSH Function, select "TOGGLE_MONITOR_SERVER".
  3. Connect to the session. When you want to let someone else monitor the session, press the mapped key you selected in step 2. The first time you do this, you will need to generate a public key. A dialog will be displayed that allows you to specify the information that will be needed by the person who will be monitoring the session.
  4. Give the other person the information from the dialog in step 3. When they connect, you will see a message in SecureCRT that they are connected. They will then be able to see everything in your SecureCRT session.
  5. To end the monitoring session, you can press the mapped key again to terminate the server monitor, have the other person log out, or disconnect your session in SecureCRT.
The session being monitored can use any protocol, but the session doing the monitoring must use SSH2. If you try it, I'd be interested in any feedback you have about this feature.

Maureen
 

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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

gnome-session-save

gnome-session-save(1)						   User Commands					     gnome-session-save(1)

NAME

       gnome-session-save - saves or terminates the current GNOME session

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-session-save [--kill] [--gui] [gnome-std-options]

DESCRIPTION

       gnome-session-save can be used from a GNOME session to save a snapshot of the currently running applications. This session will be restored
       at your next GNOME startup session.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --gui	       Shows a dialog when the session is saved, and reports errors in dialog boxes instead of printing to stderr.

       --kill	       Terminates the GNOME session.

       gnome-std-optionStandard options available for use with most GNOME applications.  See gnome-std-options(5) for more information.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Saving the user's current session

       example% gnome-session-save

       Example 2: Terminating the user's current session

       example% gnome-session-save --kill

       Example 3: Using the GUI to terminate the user's current session

       example% gnome-session-save --kill --gui

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnome-session-sThe command-line executable for the application.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-session 	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |External			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gnome-std-options(5), default.session(5), gnome-smproxy(1), gnome-session(1)

NOTES

       Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems  Inc., 2003.

SunOS 5.10							    13 Jan 2003 					     gnome-session-save(1)
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