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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? If possible, would you consider buying OS X for a non Mac computer? Post 302286866 by Neo on Thursday 12th of February 2009 06:52:36 AM

02-12-2009

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Hey tlarkin!

Thanks for the great post.

When I talk about installing packages on "a remote server", I am talking about an environment where no GUI is possible. The server is only configured from a SSH connection.

I am not sure, and you are free to correct me, but I don't think OS X is the best choice for this type of "SSH-only command line remote admin" installations.

In your post, you conclude:

Quote:

I intalled TomCat, PHP 5 and MySQL on one of my servers through an installer package and it took all of 3 minutes to do so. Then configured it through the GUI. I just now need to brush up on my mysql command line abilities and I will be set.

Are you saying that you can install and run these packages and configure completely from the command line without the GUI, via SSH, just like a Linux server?

Honestly, I only use OS X as a desktop and when I find a package like MAMP (LAMP for OS X) it seems to require a GUI click-and-install approach. Even the directions for install do not discuss any OS X "pure command line" linstallation approach.

Are you saying you can do 100% remote install, upgrade and configuration vis SSH? Yes or No? Thanks.

Neo

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libssh2_channel_direct_tcpip_ex

libssh2_channel_direct_tcpip_ex(3)				  libssh2 manual				libssh2_channel_direct_tcpip_ex(3)

NAME

       libssh2_channel_direct_tcpip_ex - Tunnel a TCP connection through an SSH session

SYNOPSIS

       #include <libssh2.h>

       LIBSSH2_CHANNEL * libssh2_channel_direct_tcpip_ex(LIBSSH2_SESSION *session, const char *host, int port, const char *shost, int sport);

       LIBSSH2_CHANNEL * libssh2_channel_direct_tcpip(LIBSSH2_SESSION *session, const char *host, int port);

DESCRIPTION

       session - Session instance as returned by libssh2_session_init_ex(3)

       host - Third party host to connect to using the SSH host as a proxy.

       port - Port on third party host to connect to.

       shost - Host to tell the SSH server the connection originated on.

       sport - Port to tell the SSH server the connection originated from.

       Tunnel  a TCP/IP connection through the SSH transport via the remote host to a third party. Communication from the client to the SSH server
       remains encrypted, communication from the server to the 3rd party host travels in cleartext.

RETURN VALUE

       Pointer to a newly allocated LIBSSH2_CHANNEL instance, or NULL on errors.

ERRORS

       LIBSSH2_ERROR_ALLOC -  An internal memory allocation call failed.

SEE ALSO

       libssh2_session_init_ex(3)

libssh2 0.15							    1 Jun 2007					libssh2_channel_direct_tcpip_ex(3)