On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 22:45 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Daniel McBrearty: > > > > I instaled putty with apt-get on the deb box - it comes up but when I > > try to connect to anyone it never gets there. I just get an empty > > terminal window. It never comes up with the warning that you get on > > first connection; nothing. No warnings or errors either. I've tried > > with the -log option but the log file doesn't even get created. > > I have never used PuTTY on linux. The usual way to connect to an SSH > server under linux is to use the OpenSSH client. Just open a terminal > emulator (Konsole, gnome-terminal, xterm, rxvt...) and do 'ssh host' > (replace host with the host you want to connect to :)). ssh will ask you > the usual questions about host keys, cache them and so on.
I guess the OP wanted to use some of the 'extra' features of putty. Personally I'd stick with ssh (and the very useful escape codes!) but as for the original problem, putty works for me as expected. So the OP should check that both the deb putty and his Windows putty are using the same protocol, port number and so on; that he can ssh (or telnet or rsh, as appropriate) from his deb box to the required machine. According to the man page, -log only logs what is displayed to the (new, connected) terminal. So if you're not getting that far, then there will be no log! But to reiterate, what is it that putty on a Linux box gives you over other options such as ssh? Is the pain worth the gain? M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
