[TriLUG] Advice: ssh/rxvt/pine

[Ben Pitzer]

Andrew,

Why use ssh?  Is your local host, or a remote host that you're running
pine on?  If it's local, why use ssh at all?  Maybe I misuderstand.

If you're trying to debug either command, I'd start with removing each
option one by one and checking to see if that's what is causing it to
bomb.  If that fails to yeild you any results, try using another
terminal, such as xterm, gnome-terminal or kterm.

Another point: why not just use filters?  Pine has them, and they're
very extensible.  The only problem I had is that pine doesn't notify you
if there are new messages in a particular mailbox.  C'est la vie.

Finally, if you're only using this account for accessing pine, and you
have root access on the box, why not point your shell in /etc/passwd to
pine, thus removing the necessity to execute pine remotely at all.  as
soon as you log in via ssh, you're in pine.  That easily.  And by
exiting pine, you exit your remote session.

Good luck!

Regards,
Ben Pitzer


On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 23:39, Andrew Perrin (CLists) wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I need some creative advice here.  I've decided to set up a second e-mail
> address for list subscriptions, because a couple of times now I've skipped
> over time-sensitive messages that were buried in a sea of messages on
> trilug, debian, R, or postgresql.  The clists account is delivered locally
> to my office machine, and I read it using pine, logged in as a new user
> (clists).
> 
> The problem is this: I'm lazy. I'd like to have a menu option, when logged
> in as aperrin, to open a window for clists' mail. I'm perfectly happy to
> type the password, but would prefer not to have to open an xterm, ssh or
> su, and then type pine manually.
> 
> The following just bombs quietly:
> rxvt -name clists -title clists -bg lightblue -fg black -e ssh \
>    clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu pine
> 
> As does:
> ssh clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu -e rxvt -bg lightblue -fg black -name \
>    clists -title clists -e pine
> 
> Can anyone suggest a one-line (e.g., can be put into fvwm2's
> main-menu-pre-hook file) command that will successfully launch another
> user's pine? If a password authentication is necessary, it should be able
> to ask for it.
> 
> I *might* end up writing a perl script to do it, but that seems like
> overkill.
> 
> Thanks-
> Andy Perrin
> 
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