Re: Ethereal in the Background
Re: Ethereal in the Background
- Subject: Re: Ethereal in the Background
- From: Mike Alexander <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 00:40:19 -0400
--On April 13, 2006 9:08:40 PM -0700 "Michael W. Fleming"
<email@hidden> wrote:
I've installed fink's port of ethereal on a 10.4.6 mac at the office.
I've enabled x11forwarding in /etc/sshd_config to allow use of that
mac as an x11 client. I can launch ethereal successfully via the
following command:
ssh -Y user@host sudo /sw/bin/ethereal
But there are two inconveniences I'd love to do away with.
1) When I am prompted for the sudo password, it shows up in plain
text on the screen. Is there any way to keep the password from
echoing?
2) I haven't been able to find any way to send the job into the
background so that I can get the command line back. I've tried ~^Z.
I've tried ^Z and entering "bg". I've tried the "-n" option (but
since that is intended for entering the ssh session password and not
the sudo password, I didn't expect it to work, and it didn't). None
of these work, all attempts cause the job to "stop" fatally
(subsequent fg's don't bring it back, I have to ^C kill it). Has
anyone gotten ethereal to work in the background? BTW, this problem
applies even when launching ethereal to the local host display.
I can't help with the password prompt question, but you can put an ssh
session into the background by typing "~&" to it. By default ssh uses
~ (tilde) at the beginning of the line as an escape character and
accepts several directives following that. Ampersand puts it into the
background.
--
Mike Alexander email@hidden
Ann Arbor, MI PGP key ID: BEA343A6
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