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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Convert vi editing to text editing Post 302962319 by durden_tyler on Friday 11th of December 2015 06:08:44 PM
Old 12-11-2015
If you only want to edit files in a remote Unix/Linux server, then another option is to use an editor in your local (Windows) machine that opens up an ftp or ssh connection to the remote server.
EditPlus and UltraEdit have this capability right in their top level menu. Notepad++ has a plugin for this. Not sure about TextPad.
- Once connected, it shows the directory tree on one side.
- When you double-click on a file, it downloads the file and opens it up for editing in your GUI editor.
- Upon saving the file after editing, it uploads and saves the file back to the remote server.

Of course, using this method you won't be able to run Unix/Linux commands or run shell scripts on the remote server.
This method works well for guys who are very comfortable with Windows GUI editors and who interact with Unix/Linux boxes **only** to view and edit files.

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The suggestion above is an expansion of the last statement in RudiC's post. I notice that he had suggested a similar approach already.
Last edited by durden_tyler; 12-11-2015 at 08:25 PM..
 

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audisp-remote

AUDISP-REMOTE:(8)					  System Administration Utilities					 AUDISP-REMOTE:(8)

NAME

       audisp-remote - plugin for remote logging

SYNOPSIS

       audisp-remote

DESCRIPTION

       audisp-remote is a plugin for the audit event dispatcher daemon, audispd, that preforms remote logging to an aggregate logging server.

TIPS

       If  you	are  aggregating  multiple  machines,  you should enable node information in the audit event stream. You can do this in one of two
       places. If you want computer node names written to disk as well as sent in the realtime	event  stream,	edit  the  name_format	option	in
       /etc/audit/auditd.conf.	If you only want the node names in the realtime event stream, then edit the name_format option in /etc/audisp/aud-
       ispd.conf. Do not enable both as it will put 2 node fields in the event stream.

SIGNALS

       SIGUSR1
	      Causes the audisp-remote program to write the value of some of its internal flags to syslog. The suspend flag tells whether  or  not
	      logging  has  been  suspended.  The  transport_ok  flag  tells  whether  or  not the connection to the remote server is healthy. The
	      queue_size tells how many records are enqueued to be sent to the remote server.

       SIGUSR2
	      Causes the audisp-remote program to resume logging if it were suspended due to an error.

FILES

       /etc/audisp/plugins.d/au-remote.conf, /etc/audit/auditd.conf, /etc/audisp/audispd.conf, /etc/audisp/audisp-remote.conf

SEE ALSO

       audispd(8), auditd.conf(8), audispd.conf(8), audisp-remote.conf(5).

AUTHOR

       Steve Grubb

Red Hat 							     Apr 2011							 AUDISP-REMOTE:(8)
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