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SSH remote command no reading all environment variables
I have declared some "PATH" variables in the ".bashrc" file of a remote machine. When I login to the remote machine, all these "PATH" variables work fine. But when I do a "ssh user@remote env", the ...
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How to paste multiple Bash commands into a shell without losing some?
It's nice to copy-paste a series of Bash commands that you find on a website. But depending on the commands, sometimes you lose a few. Maybe they get swallowed up by programs that read from standard ...
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how to copy entire linux root filesystem to new hard drive on with ssh and tar
I know I've found this information before, but can't remember the right google query.
I need to transfer an entire linux root filesystem off of a failing hard drive onto another computer with an ...
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Shell doesn't appear when connecting to RasPi via SSH
I have a raspberry pi with Arch Linux ARM installed. I would like to run commands via my laptop. I configured SSH correctly and I can log in, but I can't do anything. There is no shell. ssh user@host ...
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How do I remotely execute scripts on multiple servers, mix output
Hi I'm looking for a piece of software or some sort of technique that would enable me to do following in one terminal window:
Take as input a list of ssh-enabled machines with login, password and ...
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does ssh have a facility to exchange files when already connected?
I never heard this possible, so probably the answer is not. But maybe someone knows better.
I know you can use sftp to exchange files between host and remote, and you can both: sftp from host to ...
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Auto propagation of bash settings across many machines?
I need to console to many machines through SSH. Including Linux, Mac, mobile devices, virtual machines. Sometimes I need to login to more than 10 machines in one day.
I enjoy my personal .bashrc or ...
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1answer
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Information flow in Linux - how to tell who is currently active and typing?
I'm currently playing a mafia/werewolves game with my cyber-security class.
The basic idea is:
on one machine, the moderator starts a server program
all the players ssh into the machine and launch ...
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ssh backspace deletes one character instead of two (utf-8 symbols)
Im accessing a remote computer using ssh and running a bash command to input symbols using standard input stream:
read test;echo $test
It's ok to input english letters and use backspace to ...
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1answer
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output of `svn status -uq` has no newlines in script
function runstatus {
echo "SVN Status -uq:"
echo
status=$(svn status -uq)
echo $status
echo $bigline
}
This prints something like:
SVN Status -uq:
rd_backup ...
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Script to auto execute creation of ssh tunnel
I'm a CS student, and still learning a lot of these things, and so please bear with me if I don't have a full grasp on what I'm trying here.
I'm on a Mac, connecting to a linux machine. I can set up ...
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how do I preserve export PATH?
How can I make ssh admin@nas command work if command is in /opt/bin?
On my QNAP NAS File /root/.ssh/rc:
echo "old path is $PATH"
export PATH=/opt/bin:/opt/sbin:$PATH
echo "new path is $PATH"
on my ...
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Why does my ssh session terminate immediately?
I have a debian machine, where I have difficulties to log into via ssh. Executing commands on the server over ssh is no problem -- just I get no prompt, but the connection is terminated again:
> ...
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1answer
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How to configure secureCRT to remove content display after quit from vim
Open a ssh or telnet connection in secureCRT 6.0 or 7.0, when "vim xxx.txt", after quit vim by ":q", the content of xxx.txt will still be visible in screen. But in putty, the same operation, content ...
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1answer
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I accidentally deleted my /root folder and now my shell string is different. What gives?
I stupidly managed to delete my /root folder on CentOS. I re-created an empty /root folder and set root privs to it, but now my shell string in PuTTY is different.
Whereas it used to say ...
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kill running script (I think I must allocate terminal)
I was wondering how to kill a running script in this situation:
Two machines; machine1 and machine2.
machine1 writes:
ssh machine2 << 'ENDSSH' ./script.sh ENDSSH
causing the script to be run on ...
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1answer
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SSH not reading rc files
Once upon a time, an ssh invocation to host1 like ssh u@host1 command would read .bashrc before executing command. host2 is administered by the same people, and reads .bashrc!
I don't administer ...
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1answer
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environment using su - vs “ssh user@machine” as a user on lucid
I'm trying to debug a shell environment issue on a machine running lucid.
Both root & user have /bin/bash as their shell in /etc/passwd
When I use "sudo su - user", my PATH includes the following ...
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save password once and use it from different terminal
I have script that runs remote login using SSH, copies a file from that remote machine using SCP without asking for a password, however, the change only works for the terminal where I am running the ...
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2answers
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Unable to get profile variable using ssh
Unable to retrieve the profile variable using ssh.
server2 ==> user apptst ==> bash profile has $APPHOME variable.
Was trying to retrieve the value from server1 using ssh but failed.
Used options ...
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2answers
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Run windows bat remotely file from Linux over ssh
It is possible?
Cygwin is installed on the windows environment. I connect to windows environment over ssh with follow command:
ssh user@ip /cygdriver/c/run.bat. After introducing the password the ...
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working directory deleted
There are some 4 people who know my root password.And someone deleted my code directory.
We have a single system where everyone has his own code base directory and everyone ssh to this system and ...
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2answers
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Allow any user/password entry in ssh
I want to setup ssh so that one can login with any username or password and be accepted. If they chose a username and password of an actual user on the system they will successfully login and use ssh ...
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Find pid of a certain ssh instance
There can be more than one instance of ssh running:
$ ps aux | grep ssh
cpn 6098 0.0 0.0 58196 2032 ? S 10:08 0:01 ssh cz -nNCTR 5433:localhost4:5432
root 6313 0.0 0.0 ...
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1answer
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SSH Session Started from Here Doc Does Not Exit Properly
SSH session doesn't terminate and give the tty back when executed inside a here document. Below is the code snippet that's inside my shell script:
ssh -t -t root@$HOST_ADDRESS <<TERM_STRING
cd ...
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Running tcpdump on remote machine with no tty using ssh
I'm trying to start tcpdump on several remote machines to perform some network analysis with a script, but I'm failing to run it correctly. The command I would like to use is:
ssh user@host ...
2
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1answer
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ssh not working with yes
I had to solve a fringe case lately where I had to add a number of server fingerprints to a user's known_hosts (the authorization is performed with a keypair). I thought the easiest solution would be ...
2
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1answer
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SSH port forwarding with automatic reconnect, script executing at startup
In short, every time my computer boots, I would like to start a ssh port-forwarding connection that will reconnect with the server if the connection drops. Computer is Debian Wheezy x64.
An initial ...
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Perform shell operation through secure shell
Is it possible to perform a shell operation from a bash script through a secure shell.
Here is an example of why you may want to do this. Lets say you have a simple unix operating system that you ...
2
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1answer
171 views
Accessing a persistent ssh tunnel
How do I pass commands (shell) to a persistent SSH tunnel rather than open a connection for every instance? I have a Python scraper running on a client server which passes URL variables and shell ...
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2answers
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Bash window title not restored after exit
I have a problem with the window title in the Terminal window on OS X:
Start Terminal. Window title is "bash"
Type "ssh external" to connect to an external server. Window title is "user@external:~"
...
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Running rdesktop through a SSH tunnel in one command
I am running ssh server -L 3392:192.168.1.138:3389 in one terminal window, then running rdesktop 127.0.0.1:3392 in another to connect to a Windows machine through an SSH tunnel. How can I merge this ...
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How can i use the `eject` command on a computer i have SSH'd into?
So if i do eject on my machine, it works exactly as expected, however, if i ssh into the machine next to me, and do the same thing, it does not work...
my computer:
eject: using default device ...
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1answer
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sshpass installation
I want to use passwordless SSH for logging in. I used sshpass to achieve this.
The problem is when I am trying to install sshpass through sudo apt-get install sshpass. It asks for password.
After I ...
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loading local shell aliases to ssh session dynamicaly
When I log in to some machine using ssh I wish my aliases and functions are there. In other words, log in to some machine I wish I can use my command shortcuts.
I need it be dynamic, every time I'm ...
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Redirect output of remote python app started through ssh to file
I have a python app in a remote server that i need to debug, when I run the app locally it prints some debug information (including python tracebacks) that i need to monitor.
Im trying to redirect ...
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Term Enviroment Variable not set, when executing a Bash File via SSH
i am trying to run a bash script on a remote machine. If I open a ssh connection in a terminal, i can easily run the script. But when i run it like that:
ssh user@ip < /etc/script
I get an ...
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ssh config under cygwin
I have Cygwin installed on Windows 7. I made default install. I would like to use ssh config file (~/.ssh/config) to set host and options for connecting.
Normal ssh command is not able to find the ...
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unset LC_* previous to ssh
In my ~/.bashrc I have environment variables definition similar to
export LC_CTYPE="es_ES.UTF-8"
when I use a ssh connection some of this variables have problems in the remote computer
man: can't ...
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Tab Auto-Completion in Mac OS X when using sftp in terminal [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Tab Auto-Completion in Mac OS X when using sftp in terminal
i have been getting very frustrated lately since the readline functionality has been removed from MacOSX and ...
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When I ssh into a ubuntu machine, what kind of shell am I using
I keep reading about interactive, non-interactive, login, and non-login shells.
(This is in the context of which of the .bash* files is read).
I don't understand what each type of shell is, so let's ...
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1answer
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Why is pasting into SSH so painfully slow?
Most of the time whenever I post reasonably large chunks into an SSH terminal, it will absolutely crawl through it at a rate of something like 1000 characters every 20 seconds; sometimes practically ...
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How to make bash aliases available as linux commands?
I have many bash aliases on a remote location.
But when I try to run those from my local linux box,
I get the 'command not found' error. e.g.
$ ssh root@remote 'status'
bash: status: command not ...
3
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1answer
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Run script on login with ssh
I have a feeling this is quite easy to do but every solution found on google has to do with adding a script to be run whenever someone logs into the machine.
What I am looking for is a way to run a ...
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1answer
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Linux terminal - frozen update of input but can execute commands?
How do I restart a shell session from within SSH when it looks something like this:
anton@ubuntu:~$ c: command not found
anton@ubuntu:~$ lib
...
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ssh Permission denied only in cron job
Having a very strange problem. I've created a small bash script which runs a command on a remote host via ssh (using public key authentication).
When I run this script manually from the command line ...
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Automate a remote rsync command using bash aliases?
I deal with lots of servers that often have files and folders which are not under version control. This means I can just git remote add if I need to work with the files on my local machine.
With that ...
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How to remove 'connection to xx.xxx.xx.xxx closed' message?
#!/bin/bash
ssh -t $SSH "
some
commands
"
Where is the 'connection to xx.xxx.xx.xxx closed' message coming from? I can't stop it even with result=ssh ...
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How to check if any errors occurred during ssh?
I'm writing a deployment script, and I need to rollback if any errors occurred.
Eg:
#!/bin/bash
ssh myapp '
mkdir /some/dir
# check if above command failed, and execute rollback script if ...
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How to avoid having to type password every time rsync is run in a Bash script?
In a bash script, I have several rsync statements. Every rsync will prompt for typing password, and defeats very much the automation of doing the job using a script. How to improve this? The ...
