On Mon 10 Apr 2023 at 17:39:57 (+0200), zithro wrote: > On 10 Apr 2023 03:23, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 09 Apr 2023 at 21:48:22 (+0200), zithro wrote: > > > > IOW, while I run crontab -e on bookworm, inside my emacs session, > > > > I want a subshell to run crontab -l, but the latter has to run on > > > > bullseye in order to pick up the old crontab. I'm not sure how > > > > I would do that. > > > > > > Try running : > > > ssh user@bullseye crontab -l > > > > > > It will locally list the crontab from remote user "user". > > > > > > Note I've never used emacs, so dunno if ssh is allowed ! > > > > In case it's not clear, bullseye and bookworm are Debian distribution > > codenames, not hostnames. > > In case it's not clear, to distinguish hosts in help messages, it's > easy to refer to a host using its distro/codename. I have no idea how > you name your hosts, nor is it useful for the conversation. I thought > you could do the name translation by yourself.
In case it's not clear, to distinguish root filesystems in help messages, it's easy to refer to a rootfs using its distro/codename. For hostnames, I tend to follow RFCs 1178 and 2100. :) Cheers, David.
