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VGSEER(1) Viewglob Manual (vgseer) VGSEER(1) NAME vgseer - Viewglob shell overseer. SYNOPSIS vgseer [options] DESCRIPTION vgseer creates a Viewglob-supervised interactive shell and opens up a socket connection to a listening vgd(1) process. It maintains a snapshot of the relevant parts of its local filesystem and tracks the user's command line and other information, which is communicated to vgd. In basic usage, you can run vgseer with no arguments and it will connect to a local vgd on a Unix-domain socket. If that's all you want to do, though, you may as well just use the viewglob(1) wrapper script. If you've connected to a remote machine with telnet or ssh and would like Viewglob tracking for that shell+terminal, you can do so by calling vgseer and passing it the host and port of your local vgd. Obviously this re- quires vgseer to be installed on the remote machine. NB: the communication with vgd is done over a separate socket. If you want this information en- crypted, you'll need to setup additional ssh tunneling for it. vgseer is compatible with any recent version of bash(1) or zsh(1) and doesn't assume any particular shell configuration. OPTIONS This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes. A summary is included below. -h, --host=<name> Connect to a vgd process on the given host. If specified, an Inter- net-domain socket will be used (rather than Unix-domain), even if <name> is an alias for localhost. -p, --port=<number> Connect to a vgd process listening on the given port. The default is 16108 (1-GLOB). If connecting locally, a Unix-domain socket is used unless explicitly disabled. -c, --shell-mode=<name> Shell to be used. name can be "bash" or "zsh" (default is bash). -t, --shell-star=<on/off> Show or hide the asterisk character which is usually at the begin- ning of a vgseer shell prompt. -e, --executable=<path> Use the given executable as the shell instead of its first reference in the path. Note that if this isn't a version of the shell chosen with --shell-mode, you won't get very far. -u, --unix-socket=<on/off> Try to use a Unix-domain socket (default for local connections). If this option is turned on, the host is assumed to be localhost. If a different host is specified later, this option is automatically turned off. -H, --help Show summary of options. -V, --version Show the version of the program. FILES ~/.viewglob/vgseer.conf If present, this file specifies a default configuration for vgseer. The file syntax is: <long_option_name> [ <whitespace> <value> ] The '#' character can be used for comments. So, to always use zsh, disable the asterisk at the prompt, and al- ways connect to a vgd on a host named juniper, the file should con- tain: shell-mode zsh shell-star off host juniper Configuration file options can be overridden on the command line. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES LANG LC_ALL If either of these values include a variation of "UTF-8", vgseer will accommodate you. This is important, as otherwise Viewglob will have trouble keeping track of the cursor position. AUTHORS Stephen Bach <sjbach@users.sourceforge.net> SEE ALSO viewglob(1), vgd(1), bash(1), zsh(1). April 26, 2006 VGSEER(1)
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