[Mimedefang] watch-mimedefang
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Feb 16 00:13:03 EST 2010
Cliff Hayes wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> It is fairly difficult to imagine a box that is still running today that
> couldn't handle a GUI
>
> The 42 servers I manage range in age from old to new, Fedora 4 thru 12,
> ubuntu, and Windows. None will ever see a "user" who would benefit from a
> GUI ... only me remoting in to tweak/repair.
The server themselves don't need a GUI - but having one on the machine where you
have tools to manage them will make your work easier even if all you do is run a
bunch of xterms with ssh to the others.
> IMHO GUIs are great for users but
> unnecessary overhead on servers. Three of the boxes are Windows so I have
> no choice there. I must be in the minority since there appears to be no
> call for a web version of watch-mimedefang.
The nature of X is that you can run single applications in a remote window, so
all you need on the servers are the basic X libs, and they are only loaded when
you run a graphic application. The real overhead is in the desktop environment
which can be elsewhere.
> I'll have to give up on the
> cgywin as it took half a day (and 1G of hard drive space) to attempt to set
> up the logistics for it and I still can't establish the ssh relationship
> necessary for it to work.
Most of the time goes into building and installing all the local fonts. How did
it fail for you? Did 'startx' give you the X screen with some open xterms?
Could you 'ssh -Y' to your server from one of them? If you got that far,
starting a remote program should have worked. You should even be able to use
putty on the windows side if you set up the X tunnel option - I've forgotten if
you need to set up the DISPLAY environment.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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