Redirecting SSH output

bigredshark

bigredshark

bigredshark

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I have what I think should be a simple one to solve but I've no idea how. I have a unix box on my desktop for various purposes and one of the things I use it for is to monitor log files in realtime (simply a tail -f). But it has it's own keyboard which is eating my precious desk space, so my question is, can I run a command in an ssh session and pipe it's output to the physical display?

Surely it can't be too hard?

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Not quite sure exactly what you mean.

Just ssh into tthe second box and run the command in a spare terminal window open on your main box. If you need to redirect the X windows then use the -Y argument.

From windows you can ssh using something like putty or securecrt. To redirect X onto windows you need a windows x client like exceed or possible cygwin.
 
Code: 
export DISPLAY=:0.0 && xterm -hold -e tail /var/log/messages
 
Sure xterm can't do it though (you could set geometry but its not ideal). If you have gnome-terminal,

Code: 
export DISPLAY=:0.0 && gnome-terminal --full-screen -x tail -f /var/log/messages
 
Agree with above export DISPLAY example, but as you are using this as a monitoring tool... how about also running vnc on the server, then exporting the display to that vnc session.

The benefits being...
1) you can view that vnc session using a web browser, on any client machine on the network.
2) This removes any relience of your client machine staying up at all/not rebooting/etc... and the whole setup only relies on the server itself.
3) you can do x-windows stuff in that too.. meaning you wouldn't ever need to install exceed/cygwin/etc.
 
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