I can ssh from my windows instance of cygwin to the mimedefang server. I also established a trust relationship by exchanging ssh keys. I do that all the time to automate ssh tasks. However, for cygwin, it keeps defaulting to my windows user and not "root" and that's the problem. I can override it if I type out the ssh command at the command prompt (ssh root@<ip>) but when watch-mimedefang runs, it uses the windows user. If I could figure out how to run cygwin with root user I think it would work.
-----Original Message----- From: mimedefang-boun...@lists.roaringpenguin.com [mailto:mimedefang-boun...@lists.roaringpenguin.com]on Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 11:13 PM To: mimedefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] watch-mimedefang Cliff Hayes wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> It is fairly difficult to imagine a box that is still running today that > couldn't handle a GUI > > The 42 servers I manage range in age from old to new, Fedora 4 thru 12, > ubuntu, and Windows. None will ever see a "user" who would benefit from a > GUI ... only me remoting in to tweak/repair. The server themselves don't need a GUI - but having one on the machine where you have tools to manage them will make your work easier even if all you do is run a bunch of xterms with ssh to the others. > IMHO GUIs are great for users but > unnecessary overhead on servers. Three of the boxes are Windows so I have > no choice there. I must be in the minority since there appears to be no > call for a web version of watch-mimedefang. The nature of X is that you can run single applications in a remote window, so all you need on the servers are the basic X libs, and they are only loaded when you run a graphic application. The real overhead is in the desktop environment which can be elsewhere. > I'll have to give up on the > cgywin as it took half a day (and 1G of hard drive space) to attempt to set > up the logistics for it and I still can't establish the ssh relationship > necessary for it to work. Most of the time goes into building and installing all the local fonts. How did it fail for you? Did 'startx' give you the X screen with some open xterms? Could you 'ssh -Y' to your server from one of them? If you got that far, starting a remote program should have worked. You should even be able to use putty on the windows side if you set up the X tunnel option - I've forgotten if you need to set up the DISPLAY environment. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list MIMEDefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list MIMEDefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang