Remote command line execution

[brutog]

I've found this script very useful...thank you for your work.

I have a use case that is presenting problems. I am trying to use a remote machine as a "VPN portal". I log into the machine via SSH, and try to start msjnc using my typical command line options but I get:

Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: at /usr/lib/perl5/Gtk2.pm line 138.

I didn't think it opened a window when I used command line locally on the machine, but it seems I'm erroring out because it can't find a display to draw a window on. Is there an easy workaround? Or perhaps this is a feature request that simply says "don't do any GUI stuff"?

Thanks, bru

[madscientist]

Can you specify what "my typical command line options" are?

There's an option --connect (which I appear to have left out of the documentation :-/) which should allow you to do purely CLI-based connections. Note you MUST have a GUI interface to create or edit profiles, but once you have a working profile it should be possible to start the session from the terminal with --connect.

Alternatively, when you ssh to the remote machine be sure to pass the -X option to ssh ("ssh -X me@remote"), which will allow you to run graphical apps with the display redirected through your ssh secure tunnel.

[madscientist]

Whoops. I'm not so familiar with github bug tracking :-)

[brutog]

These are the aliases I use (I do already have a profile).

alias vpn='msjnc --profile sc4 --connect' alias vpnd='msjnc --disconnect'

I'll probably need to use the X forwarding method until another solution is found. I'll test that later today to see if that works. Thanks.

[madscientist]

Hm that should work. I'll have to test it again but won't be able to do that until later.

[madscientist]

Should be fixed in version 2.5.

[brutog]

Thanks for fixing!