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How can I break away from an SSH session that has crashed?
Many times I have an SSH session that doesn't respond anymore (for example, when I lose internet connection and then reconnect). Ctrl+C, Ctrl+D, Ctrl+Z and a zillion of key presses don't have any ...
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Kill an unresponsive ssh session without closing the terminal
Is there a way to disconnect from an SSH session that has become unresponsive without killing the whole terminal? Specifically I'm using konsole, and the machine I'm working with sometimes hangs, but ...
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SSH inside SSH fails with “stdin: is not a tty”
I'm trying to connect to machine one with ssh and then connect to another machine two with ssh, but I get this error.
ssh [email protected] 'ssh [email protected]'
stdin: is not a tty
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Can I unfreeze bash or vim when SSH session freezes from timeout? [duplicate]
When my SSH session times out, the whole terminal freezes.
Is there any way to break out of that connection? CTRL+C doesn't cut it.
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Why ssh does not turn terminal title back?
As you might know, when you ssh to a server from an X terminal (rxvt, gnome-terminal...), ssh changes the window title to reflect user@host, but it does not change it back.
There are many tips how to ...
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4answers
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Disable colours on terminal and SSH
My local Linux machine has coloured terminal output like this;
When I SSH to a pfSense/BSD box it changes the colours like this;
Even when I SSH from to a machine that doesn't have a coloured ...
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2answers
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working with filenames in a different encoding over ssh
I'm ssh'ing to a remote system where a different encoding for the filenames (and for the users' locales) has been used. And this causes some problems.
Problems solved by matching the locale settings
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emacs syntax highlighting fails on my SSH client
I need to connect to a remote server by SSH to edit some documents. When I work at home, I SSH to the remote server using SSH Secure Shell and open emacs, but it doesn't fully highlight documents as I ...
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How to properly run “top” command through SSH?
I have to run top command on one computer being on another.
My targeted PC has IP 192.168.0.81
I was trying to do it: ssh 192.168.0.81 top
But I got this result: top: tcgetattr() failed: Invalid ...
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1answer
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Why don't Page U/Down, Home/End work in less on Solaris over ssh from Ubuntu?
I need to work on a Solaris server over ssh from my Ubuntu (Lucid) laptop. I got Home/End Insert/Delete Page Up/Down working in csh and bash using bindkey and ~/.inputrc, respectively. But I can't ...
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2answers
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Prevent SSH client passing TERM environment variable to server?
I'm currently using Fedora 18 gnome-terminal, then started tmux multiplexer in it. After I connected to a CentOS 5 server via ssh command, I find:
ls result has no color
tmux, screen, hexedit, htop ...
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Copy text from one terminal into another
I am logged into ssh to a university account from my home computer. Then I find a file that I want to copy onto my local system. So I open a new shell terminal and am about to use scp to copy that ...
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1answer
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Idle terminal safe character
I'm using iTerm2 on a Mac to do Linux work. In order to avoid losing terminal connections, I turned on "When idle, sent Ascii code". The default is 0. This works like a charm to keep connections ...
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2answers
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Can I set my local machine's terminal colors to use those of the machine I ssh into?
I have a color scheme that I like for when I'm in a terminal, but I ssh into the machine I work on from multiple sources (locally, PuTTY, my netbook, etc.) and I want to maintain the same color scheme ...
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List all connected SSH sessions?
I just SSH'd into root, and then SSH'd again into root on the same machine. So I have two windows open both SSH'd into root on my remote machine.
From the shell, how can I see a list of these two ...
