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Which client to use for AS400 terminal? [closed]

I would like to connect to AS400 machine but I do not know which client to use. I have clients installed at work but I do not remember how it is called. I use Windows 7. Can anyone help me ?
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Close SSH connection [migrated]

I'm using Mac's Terminal App and I know how to connect to an external server via ssh (ssh -l username domain.com). But how do I close the connection once I'm done? Thanks.
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mysql not to print selects output to terminal

Quick question: I have created come commands that will warm-up my DB. The thing is that those selects are large. When I do such a select I get all the "jiba-jaba" into my terminal window. How can you ...
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Do Mac OS X servers have a security mechanism that blocks a user if they log in from two different IPs?

A trusted friend and I had ssh'ed into a Mac OS X Web Server (either snow leopard or lion) from two different locations. Then my password stopped working when trying to log in. I can safely rule out ...
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Text cursor loses placement (via SSH)

I've noticed (on more than a few Linux servers) while I'm editing a configuration file via SSH the text cursor loses it's place. The only way to regain its correct visual placement is by stretching ...
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Terminal hanging while executing a command

I have not much experience with server administration, but i tried to execute unzip command in one particular directory on server and it hanged , it was not responding for long time. So I logged into ...
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How to access filenames with accents (show up as ?) on Apache server?

I manage a website that is based on directory listings (dessin.acswift.com). The website is in French, and many of the urls contain accents: /leçon 1 - identification & vocabulaire.html I ...
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Mac terminal login via SSH key without entering password.

I am trying to log into SSH using the terminal: ssh root@example.com -p54 -i ~/.ssh/ssh_key Custom port number 45. Chmod 600 ssh_key. I know that the SSH key works correctly because I can connect ...
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How to Install Office 2007 Enterprise onto Server 2008 R2 Terminal Server

Can you tell me how to get an Office 2007 Enterprise VLK program to work in terminal services? I keep getting an error that says This copy of Office cannot be used on terminal server. I can't ...
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Upgraded domain controller from Win 2k to Win 2k8r2 and need to move Terminal Server into new domain

For a number of reasons, I have created a new, separate domain in my organization in Windows Server 2008 R2. I have a Terminal Server machine that also hosts the TS License Server that I need to ...
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SSH garbling characters in vim/nano on remote server

... and it's driving me insane. Basically (this has been happening over the past couple months), I log into a few different CentOS servers (one Linode, another VPS, and a shared host to which I have ...
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Why does TERM=xterm have to be set for my script to work correctly when remotely executed?

I'm attempting to automate the installation of a Debian server (debian 6.0 squeeze 64bit). Part of the installation requires the Sun JRE package to be installed. This package has a licence ...
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Linode Lish Shell Vim and Nano rendering troubles: lines not appearing / cursor positions wrong

I'm using a linode VPS and I just cloned one of my servers to my development server as I've done many times before. As usual SSH is inaccessible until /etc/network/interfaces is correctly updated. I ...
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How to find out what consumes Linux pty's

The number of allocated ptys (/proc/sys/kernel/pty/nr) on my linux server is constantly growing, and exceeds the number of active logins, terminals and screen sessions by orders of magnitude. Only a ...
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How do I restore (xterm|gnome-terminal) wrapping after telnet to HP equipment has messed it up?

I telnet to an HP switch from my (xterm|gnome-terminal). Exit telnet. That breaks the behaviour of the terminal. (If you don't have a HP switch to telnet to, one can cat this file in a terminal ...
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Ubuntu Terminal Errors

Whenever I open my terminal I get this error at the top: bash: /etc/bash_completion.d/hping2: line 22: syntax error near unexpected token `$( compgen -W '02 04 08 10' )' bash: ...
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Is it possible to open terminals in a grid layout when using ClusterSSH?

I'm using the ClusterSSH tool (using the cssh command) to admin clusters of between 4 and 8 machines. By default, each terminal onto a cluster host is tiled, and opened to the right of the previous, ...
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Can I set Truecrypt options from terminal?

When trying to dismount an encrypted partition i get the ol' Error: device-mapper: remove ioctl failed: Device or resource busy. The recommended solution from the interwebz seems to be to change some ...
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How to remove many (200 000) files?

I must remove 200 000 files (all of them) from a folder, and I don't want to delete the folder itself. using rm, I get an "Argument list too long" error. I've tried to do something with xargs, but ...
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Terminal Server 2008 - Certain users experience slow load times for certain processes

I'm tearing my hair out here. Please can someone assist me. I have users on a terminal server and they all use the same programs - Office and an Accounting package, yet certain processes are slower to ...
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key mapping (superkey) over gnu screen or tmux

Here's what I want to do: In these examples the Window Key/SuperKey = % % S open up a terminal with screen enabled % = Create a new screen % - Remove current screen % . Go to the next screen % , ...
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How to get rid of a phantom folder in Mac Os?

I have a weird folder in my home directory. It's called "..Copied!" This name probably comes from an unfortunate period of time when I had overridden pwd in my bash profile. I learned my lesson and ...
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Terminal Server: no default printer

I have a customer with 3 2008 R2 Standard terminal servers in 1 TSfarm. All clients are XP/Vista/7 Pro and login with a generic account automatically at startup. After startup the latest mstsc client ...
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customizing terminal ssh shell

The other day I saw someone connected to an ssh shell with status bars on the bottom (Mac OS X Terminal) of the terminal. It has things such as upload rate, memory usage, time, current username, and ...
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Connecting to an analog dial-in PSTN terminal without a PSTN line

there's a computer ("server") that has no Internet connection, and it is located in a place with no GSM signal. The only way to get connection to it is an analog modem (US Robotics 56Kbit/s). This ...
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Server Bash Line Wrapping Over Text & In Wrong Place

This is quite a hard problem to explain, when connecting to one of my servers using the bash shell, under any user the line wrapping is broken and has all sorts of problems. Once of which I detail in ...
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Is it possible to change value of $TERM when calling ssh?

On my local terminal, I have TERM=konsole-256color, but not all remote machine I connect to have this definition. Is it possible to make ssh change the TERM on remote machine? Without changing .bash* ...
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Terminal script for Apple Remote Desktop to find disk space

I've ran into a small dilemma. I'm am attempting to get out developers all using the same features and functions, and to pretty much manage our networks in specific ways. I had NewGuy ask me if I ...
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-bash: apt-get: command not found

Over the course of uninstalling the HP/palm enyo SDK and installing node JS I somehow goofed up something (I think my path). Now when I try use apt-get I get the following: -bash: apt-get: command ...
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TN3270 - Prevent input on Extra Client

If there is no input on terminal screen and enter key is pressed, the host returns an error ("unknown command") I want to prevent the enter key to send the input if there is no data. Is it possible? ...
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Debian install netbeans - “No protocol specified”

When trying to run the netbeans shell installer, it gives me an error. ./netbeans-7.0.1-m1-php-linux.sh Configuring the installer... Searching for JVM on the system... Extracting installation data... ...
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Can I create a hidden admin account via the terminal on OSX?

I have around 300 baby macs to look after, and they have lots of different admin accounts, which is a nightmare to work with. ARD has slowly been configured with the accounts of the machine owners, ...
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Escape sequence for the escape key

On an SSH terminal, there is a command that takes over the terminal window, and it says I can press escape to end it. My SSH terminal does not handle the escape key. What is the escape sequence ...
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Lookup IP address of workstation?

I have a list of computer names that I would like to be able to know the IP address of to RDP/VNC from time to time. I was wondering if there was a way I could look them up? I am using a Mac but the ...
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IPSEC-VPN between two Fortigate 80C firewalls extremely slow

Our company is based in Israel, with main branches in china and the US. We work exclusively with Fortinet hardware, and we are using their built-in IPSec VPN capabilities to connect the remote sites. ...
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Browser based terminals

Are there any browser based terminals out there? (what are the best ones?) This would be so someone could access an SSH-style connection without an SSH client. Just a browser. The webserver could be ...
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shell script doesn't run correctly in cron

I want to call a shell script I wrote from a cron. The shell script uses the program Linkchecker. If I run the shell script from the terminal it works just fine. However, when cron runs I get the ...
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Printing cuts off part of the page with redirected printers in terminal services

I have looked this issue up extensively and have i have came across a hot fix, KB959442. Where i am having an issue is trying to apply this hotfix. It says this is for Windows XP SP3 machines but i ...
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Days since a specific date

How to print in linux/unix bash the number of days since a specific date till now? (for example days since 23rd of June 2009 till today)!
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Anyone suggest a good ssh terminal emulator for windows (connecting to RHEL box) and proper terminal type?

We have an old C program which has traditionally been run from SCO boxes. We have a customer that went with RackSpace running RHEL and we got the app recompiled. We have a problem with terminal ...
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Recommended settings and setup for Windows Server 2008 R2 Terminal Services

What are the recommended settings for a terminal server? I have a group of up to 300 persons (they are working shifts, so I guess 100-120 on at same time is unthinkable) who is going to access a ...
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Catch-all ACL attributes via CLI for Mac OS X?

It's nice and all that one can "go crazy" adding and subtracting ACL's from files/folders till the cows come home... but when doing it from the command line, say for example.. $ chmod +a# 1 "admin ...
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How to undo this?

I set up a soft link on my MAMP system like this ln -s php5.3 php5 but I think it might have been the cause of system problems that just appeared does anyone know how to undo it?
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How do I increase size of Terminal on Linux

I have a 48core linux box. I would like to monitor per core cpu usage. However when I use top and press 1 I get an error message "Sorry, terminal is not big enough" Is there anyway I can increase ...
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How can I mount a remote volume with 777 permissions for all users?

I want users to be able to upload files to a central file server via my PHP script. I mounted the file server's shared volume using this command: sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.8/share local_dir -o ...
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How can I force my terminal to run high resolution in non-X11 environment in Linux?

I just installed Scientific Linux and I've had a high resolution terminal, then I upgraded my video driver to enable some features of my video card but with that my terminal went to regular resolution ...
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Setting up Terminal Services on Windows 2008 R2 server for the first time to connect 20 remote users

Any advice on where I should begin in terms of resources or videos? Outstanding questions are: Should we use Remoteapp or Sessions Understanding and deploying TS gateway How does SAV work with ...
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Does Mac OS X Cache Private Keys for SSH?

I have SSH key-based authentication setup to connect to a remote server from my Macbook Air. The private key was originally stored in ~/.ssh/id_rsa, but I have since moved that file to a secure ...
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Launching Local script on remote Mac using SSH

I have 40+ Macs (10.4 - 10.6) and I need to run a script that will join them to an MS Server 2008 Active Directory, Convert local profiles to Mobile profiles, and perform some other tweaks for ...
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Most long-running commands instantly killed on Amazon EC2 (Ubuntu 10.04)

When running any sort of long-running command in the terminal, the program instantly dies and the terminal outputs the text Killed. Any pointers? Maybe there is a log file with data explaining why ...

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