* Lewis Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20031107 18:01]: wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:56:43PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > * Lewis Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20031107 17:28]: wrote: > > > At my university everything is firewalled and the only way I can > > > transfer files to/from my account is to use sftp -- but that gets quite > > > painful after a while. > > > > What do you mean by quite painful? sftp should be very easy to use > > Yeah, it is fairly easy to use but it's still annoying to be doing it. > In reality what I want is to edit the remote files directly. I don't > want to be copying back/forth. It can't really be automated either, > since I'm not doing the same task over and over. > > > Basically you have to ask the folks administering your systems if they > > allow NFS and I doubt it already. > > No, they don't. Pretty much the only thing allowed is ssh/sftp. > > > > Or can anybody suggest any other way I might achieve something similar? > > > Bear in mind I am actually restricted to sftp/ssh. > > > > Forget your ideas. Tell us what it is that you want to be doing. > > I want my remote home directory (available just by ssh) to be > transparently available from a local directory :P
I don't know how to do that via ssh, but I know how to execute commands
remotely via SSH:
ssh remote_host -t -A /usr/bin/ee /path/to/some/file
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Odhiambo Washington
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