On 11/7/15 3:36 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote:
Greetings;
I have a number of older PCs that I use for testing/local webservers,
fileservers, backup machines and other stuff. A couple of these have
"glass ttys", ie. no graphics at all, and others have old low-res
monitors of 800x600 at best. Also, they are all in the basement, which
is a trip I don't like to make very often!
I want to force these systems to support hi-res 1680x1050 or better so
I can VNC to them from my main machine and be able to use graphic
software to operate and maintain these machines.
Right now I mostly use ssh and it can be a real pain!
Can anybody tell me how to accomplish this or point me to a "How To"
somewhere?
As someone else pointed out, you can always use X-windows over SSH.
But, speaking as someone who administers lots of servers - the command
line rules. GUIs are for amateurs.
If you really want to use graphical tools to manage servers, use some
kind of client-server tool like Nagios.
Miles Fidelman
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
