Linux Orbit: Remote Gkrellm Over SSH Mini-HOWTO

[ Thanks to John
Gowin for this link. ]

“It’s nice to have a server, router or firewall tucked away in a
closet or in a dark corner of a room and still be able to access it
over your local network. But what about monitoring it? Keeping an
eye on a local computer is easy with Gkrellm, so why not a remote
computer? In this Mini-HOWTO I’ll show you how to use X11
forwarding over SSH to run a Gkrellm on your remote computer and
have it display on your local computer, securely! It’s fairly
simple, I’ll give you the quick and dirty below.

“In this Mini-HOWTO I’ll be talking about what to do server side
and client side. Just to clear this up before we get started, by
server side I mean the computer tucked away in your closet that you
log into over you local network and want to monitor. By client side
I mean the computer you login from, and want the Gkrellm to be
displayed on. Now, on to the Mini-HOWTO…

“First, it wouldn’t be too convenient if you had to enter your
password when you ran the Gkrellm, as then you wouldn’t be able to
have it startup automatically upon your login to X. So, if you
don’t already have passwordless (keybased) login setup already,
first check the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file on the server side, and
make sure PubkeyAuthentication isn’t set to no. If it’s not in the
file at all that’s fine, since the default setting is yes…”

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