might still be 14. :)
:)
I change my nick a lot
no biggie to me
anybody around care to confirm that vnc'ing to their console works fine?
in general?
or recently?
within the last 2-3 days, i guess
upgraded kernel and rebooted a few days ago, just tried to hit the console and just get a blank screen
worked fine before upgrade/reboot, but hadn't tried it afterwards until now
odd.
i'm sure it's just my vps, but want to confirm... not sure what would cause it to b0rk.
I *have* noticed a need to stop/start the ssh tunnel after a reboot though
for some reason
didn't used to need that
back a year ago. :)
i've tried over ssh and not, same thing either way
I don't background my tunnel
ssh -vN
not -f something :)
well the connection gets established, the console is usually blanked, just hit enter to get the screen to appear, but that's not working now
weird
and i'm in san jose and can't ssh in from $home
I have no idea what that last statement means
I hope I wasn't expected to understand it
i have ssh filtered except from a few ip addresses
none of those boxes are within ~2500 miles of me right now =)
how would that affect your console?
your filtering is within your VM, right?
or did you set up something special with ARP?
it wouldn't, but i have no other way to get into the vps
iptables in the vps
right... so you should still be able to ssh-tunnel the vnc
right
with a b0rked console, though, i can't get in at all
have you tried a reboot?
and watch it during reboot?
the low-level stuff should at least scribble on the console
before your OS takes over
the "press F12 to select boot device" stuff
no, i try not to use rebooting as a troubleshooting technique =)
depends on what you need, I guess
if the box is up and running, no biggy
if it's broken, needs fixing. :)
as for sshd, I moved it from 22 to 443, and never ever see ssh probes
no need for ip range reduction
yeah, i use alternate port numbers or two-factor security at times
all my sites are working so it's not a huge issue, just wanted to ssh in and check something
can you tunnel through home? :)
I have "back to my mac" for that, for example.
i could, if the machines weren't powered down at the moment
jlgaddis FWIW I was just now able to connect to a login screen for my vps using unencrypted "Chicken" program, a derivitive of ChickenoftheVNC. I was never able to get an SSH tunnel up and running.
Good Luck. Maybe there is a daemon to turn on your Mac :)
I advise always always tunneling vnc through ssh
-always
I presume you put your ssh public key into the control panel ...
yep
and asked support@ for help wrt why it is not working?
oh sorry I have no problem with anything
b1k is your home machine a unix flavor?
yep, I use OSX
oh
which number?
or cat?
10.6.8 Snow Leopard
hm
I noticed on my 10.5.8 there was not ssh_config or sshd_config in the ssh dir. Do you have one?
or do you just use the system one?
ifthen: on my OSX, both the sshd_config and ssh_config are located in /etc/
there is no ssh/ sub dir
oddly enough
I see /etc/sshd_config
never noticed until now :)
on my snow leopard machine
well that's the system standard one i think
yeh thats strange eh RandalSchwartz
yeah - that's what I'm thining
I dunno, maybe not
installer's choice. :)
on FreeBSD it has a ssh sub dir
yah, suppose so
well i just put one in and it didn't help or hurt
i still get timed out
Randall I checked your suggestions but no dice yet
btw i have used tcsh for many years as user only but just took the vnc csh out of the box for a try.
going to set up a user with tch
tcsh
b1k*, Randal, myself on OSX 10.6.8; it seems to me that a vps on FreeBSD which has its ssh_config and sshd_config in an ssh directory would be confused by these file being in /etc [no ssh directory]. I am thinking of copying those files to a /user/ssh/ directory. I have already put a few variable instantiation commands in one and it hasn't wrecked anything. I just wonder how a non-apple OS can find ssh_config and sshd_config.
in my personal opinion you are completely barking up the wrong tree, ifthen
thanks b1* I am getting desperate and willing to try anything.
I am sick of being timed out.
I imagine so :(
Where is that fruitful tree?
hehe
if it consoles you at all, ifthen, I time out constantly
if you could see my auth.log it would look like I have an obssession with constantly ssh'ing to my vps
Well I am spoiled by my shell provider in Hollywood who never times me out.
And now my own shell kicks me out...
my shell is FreeBSD
same here
Something is the matter
indeeed
I guess it means more time with google. The only solution I saw to this problem was a case where there was a bad setting in Putty that was the problem.
do you use putty?
no I have sworn off microsoft
ah goods
good
I thought you were using putty on OSX
lol
heh i used to use it with ms
yah
same
then I got on my first *nix shell and was hooked
>_<
I think macbooks and a VPS would be a great combination if I could make it happen.
maybe i need a pc-bsd book
ugh no
haha
FreeBSD make a grreat desktop
do you know about PC-BSD the new os?
you get a choice of all the unix desktops
yah I know it
I used it many moons ago
Well it seems to me the macbook display is good enough
But I keep thinking maybe Apple doesn't want to play with FreeBSD
In which case I'm done with Apple.
I don't know if I'm paranoid or ignorant right now.
about?
About apple and bsd
ah
nice chatting b1*
gotta go now
see ya ifthen
b1k* I have had an SSH connection to my VPS open for about an hour. http://tinyurl.com/3d6itpu I included Randal's TCP keep alive suggestion.
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