Charles' Log: week of 12 February 2001

  1. February (Thursday). 

    SSH2
    Danly has closed telnet access to their host (understandable now that they are running live data), and insist on ssh version 2 to access monster.danly.com (which is also now known as www.danly.com).

    SSH2 for Unix is available as source from www.openssh.com.  I founded that I also needed the OpenSSL libraries in order to build it; they are available from www.openssl.org.

    I haven't been able to find a free Windows ssh2 client, but there are commercial versions (both for $99) at www.ssh.com and www.vandyke.com.

    File searching under Solaris
    I got sufficiently frustrated trying to find certain settings of certain websphere configuration files that I took the time to write a little 'text-only search' utility. 

    I've added the command 'searchfiles' to /usr/local/bin, which should be part of every user's PATH. "searchfiles xyz" looks for "xyz" (ignoring case) in every text file under every directory under the current directory, and reports the results.