OT: Mailscanner remote training via console

[Clive Eisen]

Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:

>On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 04:35:11PM -0500, Erick Perez wrote:
>
>
>>I want to remotely train a person on how to config MS on a Linux RH 9 box. I
>>only have access to the remote server via SSH and the remote person is
>>seated at the console.
>>Is there any script/program tha will allow me to "feed" what am i doing from
>>pts/0 to tty1 ?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>
>
>well ... you can do:
>
>sh &> /dev/tty9
>
>but then you can't see what you're typing ...
>
>I think maybe you can copy standard error and standard out to another
>file descriptor and redirect that to a tty ... but I'm on my way out the
>door and can't think of how to do it off the top of my head.
>
>Anyway, hope that helps at least a little.
>
>
>
man screen particularly the -x option

does EXACLY what you need

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