Gnome Terminal and Session management Query

[Richard England]

Richard England wrote:
> Dan Track wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Dan Track <dan.track at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  
>>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Dan Track <dan.track at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I've got fedora 9 installed and I'd like it to store sessions for all
>>>> my routers,switches, firewalls, servers etc just like putty and
>>>> securecrt do. How can I manage that in a sensible way, I've got nearly
>>>> a 100 different devices so a long list wouldn't be ideal, something
>>>> like creating folders e.g network, linux and then storing the sessions
>>>> in there would be good.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Dan
>>>>       
>>> Hey Guys,
>>>
>>> Can anyone give any thoughts on this? I just need to save profiles in
>>> a logical way!
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Dan
>>>     
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Guess no one has this type of problem. I'm curious how do you guys
>> then manage all your servers and network devices? Do you memorise the
>> hostnames or ip addresses and ssh or telnet in every time you need log
>> in?
>>
>> Is there something fundamental I'm missing?
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>   
> I add a "Drawer" to my desk top tool bar.  That drawer contains a set 
> of "Custom Application Launcher"  entries that run in a Terminal and 
> execute the command "ssh -Y -l <login name>@<hostname>" .    My login 
> on each host contains the .profile/.kshrc/ etc  files that define all 
> the environment settings I need.  I create custom Icons for the Drawer 
> items that consist of the name of the system.
>
> HTH
>
> ~~R
>
Yeah, well, that command line was pretty much  wrong.  You shouldn't use 
the -l option if you use "<login name>@<hostname>".  Sorry.

~~R