[TriLUG] Advice: ssh/rxvt/pine

[Andrew Perrin]

Thanks to all who have replied.

> rxvt -e su - clists -c pine

This works very nicely from the same machine, and may be adequate for what
I need to do.

You're right, pine and ssh don't play well together, but a shell script
may work; I will put that in my bag o' tricks.

The other suggestions, while correct, won't work in my specific
situation. I don't have access to the machine that handles my main
(campus) mail account, so I can't run procmail on it (which is, of course,
the right way to go).  I considered setting my campus account to forward
to a local account on my office machine, but that has significant
downsides (that is, I have to worry about making sure my machine is always
available - losing mail on that account would be worse than on others).

Thanks again-
Andy Perrin

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu


On 22 Apr 2002, Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney wrote:

> On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 23:39, Andrew Perrin (CLists) wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> su -c is your friend, if you happen to be on the same machine as the
> account:
> rxvt -e su - clists -c pine
> 
> Now, for ssh, things get trickier. Pine wants to control I/O in ways ssh
> doesn;t allow for when apssed on the ssh command line. In my experience,
> ssh & pine have never played nice with this :
> 
> > rxvt -name clists -title clists -bg lightblue -fg black -e ssh \
> >    clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu pine
> 
> So if I were you, I'd script the command - instead of pine, use, say
> pine-launcher.sh or something.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Hmm. most of the time I just used ssh for it. Although I've switched to 
> evolution pretty much full time, which does really nice multi-account
> things.
> 
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