[mythtv-users] deleting from telnet interface
Jason Joines
jason at joines.org
Mon Nov 12 20:45:05 UTC 2007
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] deleting from telnet interface
From: Dan Ritter <dsr-myth at tao.merseine.nu>
To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Date: Mon Nov 12 13:42:41 2007
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 07:07:30PM +0000, John Veness wrote:
>
>> Jason Joines wrote:
>>
>>> What I want to do is manage my recordings from a remote low
>>> bandwidth connection. I've tunneled VNC back through SSH but it was too
>>> slow to be usable. Had the same problem with the web interface.
>>> However, using the telnet interface was just fine in this regards.
>>> Something like an ncurses based frontend would be ideal.
>>>
>> I used ssh to my machine, then lynx (or some other text-based browser)
>> to connect to localhost/mythweb one holiday. This was because I went
>> away in a hurry and I already knew how to setup a secure ssh connection,
>> but didn't know how to setup secure apache open to the world, so this
>> was the quickest solution. It was pretty tedious to browse through
>> mythweb via a text browser, but it just about worked.
>>
>
> I use this SSH invocation:
>
> ssh -L 2000:mythbox:80 user at gateway
>
> which creates a tunnel such that http://localhost:2000 is
> actually the mythbox's port 80.
>
> Coupled with gzip compression, mythweb is pretty usable.
>
> -dsr-
>
I was also tunneling the mythweb through SSH but it was too slow to
use. I didn't try using a text based browser to access it though. I'll
give that a try. Another post in this thread suggested turning off
thumbnails. Any idea where that setting is in a config file or table?
Jason
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