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Questions tagged [remote-control]

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Enable Gnome Screen Sharing via Commandline?

I set up a automated kickstart-installation for a "digital-signage-client" based on Fedora 30 (soon 32), now I want to add the enabling of the "Gnome Screen Sharing" to the installation to be able to get an actual visual feedback what is on the…
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Run local python script on remote machine

I wish to run python script that I have locally on disk on remote machine. I used to run bash scripts like this: cat script.sh | ssh user@machine but I do not know how to do same for Python script.
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Remote Mouse netcat (/dev/input/mice)

I was playing around with nc and I'm discovering how powerful and versatile this tool is. I was wondering how the file /dev/input/mice works because when I do cat /dev/input/mice you see the output, but I am not sure how to play with that. I have…
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Install Desktop on Centos 6.3 remote server

Through our hosting provider, we can create servers running CentOS 6.3. However, these installs are meant to be used as servers that are accessed remotely. They do not come packaged with a GUI "Desktop" environment. What steps do you suggest to take…
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Monitor a burst of events with inotifywait

I have a service which is sporadically publishing content in a certain server-side directory via rsync. When this happens I would like to trigger the execution of a server-side procedure. Thanks to the inotifywait command it is fairly easy to…
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How to connect a Wiimote to a Fedora 19 system?

How to connect a Wiimote for remote controlling purposes under Fedora? (actually, it is a 3rd party wiimote clone, like the ones sold on amazon for 15 $)
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PulseAudio as remote source *and* sink?

I'm an amateur radio operator, and I use a software package called WSJT-X to connect my computer to my radio to operate it using what we call "digital modes". This works by sending audio signals from the speaker output of a USB sound card to my…
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How to disable remote access on a linux distribution?

So I've read in Mark Sobell's book on Linux, that Linux by default is open to remote administration. Now seen as I'm running a Fedora 17, on a laptop I never have to administrate anything on remotely, I see this as a door to my house needlessly…
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How do I force x11vnc to stream lower quality?

I need to access a remote machine via a high latency, slow connection. It uses x11vnc and I want it to broadcast video in much lower quality than what's actually on the screen. First thing that comes to mind is to use less colours (e.g. 8 bit), but…
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Is it possible to transport any device over TCP?

Is it possible to transport whole device as in /dev entry over TCP? I'm talking about transporting eg. joystick over TCP or mouse/rs232 port/framebuffer dev, soundcard dev, disks etc. I'm mostly interested in input devices keybords, joysticks,…
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Find a IR transmitter device

I would like to use the IR transmitter included in a cubox. I did not found any documentation to use it, so I would want to learn how to communicate with periphericals on linux. Commands like lshw,lspci did not gave me any information, I think I…
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SSH PC at office in local network from home

My office has one default gateway and behind that is a local network with locally assigned IP addresses to all computers including mine. I hold admin in my Ubuntu installed office PC and is it essential that I access the computer during weekends…
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Restricted ssh remote execution with arguments

I need to enable remote execution of a shell script on a server, but deny all other access. The script is a toggle that accepts a single parameter (on/off/status). This comes close to answering my question, but while it works to run scripts…
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How to configure vim to interact with interactive command line shells?

From time to time I want to use vim as scratch pad for commands that I would like to send to a command line shell like psql (Postgres), ghci (Haskell programming language), octave ('calculator'), gnuplot (plot) etc. The advantages would be that you…
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Unlock the encrypted Volumes after restarting the server via SSH

I used the sudo shutdown -r to restart my Mac server via SSH. However, after restarting the server, I discovered that two volumes are offline due to encryption. What I am trying to do is input the password via ssh to unlock the encrypted disks in…
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