[H-GEN] VNC for console apps??

[Johann]

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HI Russell

Russell Stuart wrote:

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>Does anybody know if there exists a program that will let a remote user
>view on Linux console & send keystrokes to it?  Like a text version of
>VNC really.
>
>The reason is the same as typical usage of VNC - I have users who run
>console based programs hundreds of k's away, who ring up and say
>something has gone wrong.  It would save usual rigmarole of "press this
>then press that then read back to me the lines on the screen".
>
>I could of sworn I saw one a year of two ago, but can't remember the
>details now.
>


it sounds like you want to use either ssh (preferable) or telnet (okay, 
but not as secure) just about every distro comes with both

cheers

Johann


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