Bug 107697 – app-admin/omnitty - curses-based program that allows one to log into several machines simultaneously and interact with them

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ralf Fischer 2005-09-30 05:27:45 UTC]

Hi there,

I've written a small ebuild for omnitty [1], what is some kind of ncurses based
cluster ssh client / multiplexer. 

On the left-hand side there's a list of hosts you're connected to, whereas in
the right-hand area you see the IO of the underlying ssh session, which is
selected in the list on the left. You can mark sinlge ("select") several hosts
you send input to all marked ones, when switching to "multicast-mode". 

For me this package was very helpful as I've to grep logfiles on several hosts
for changing patterns. As I have no direct IP access to this hosts (I've to jump
over a "gateway server" for security reasons), with omnitty I could do it on all
clusters at the same time, without having any dependencies to X.

Omnitty depends on libc, ncurses and rote, which is currently also submitted as
#107694 .

[Comment 1 Ralf Fischer 2005-09-30 05:30:08 UTC]

Created attachment 69550 [details]
Omnitty snapshot from local portage overlay

A .tar.bz snapshot of my local portage overlay. 

It includes also an patch for omnitty which allows to set the with of the
right-hand terminal area. Currently this is fixed to 80 columns.

[Comment 2 Ralf Fischer 2005-09-30 05:32:21 UTC]

Comment on attachment 69550 [details]
Omnitty snapshot from local portage overlay

Of course only omnitty from my local portage overlay

[Comment 3 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2005-09-30 06:31:29 UTC]

Please attach as the ebuild as plain text and reopen.

[Comment 4 Ralf Fischer 2005-09-30 17:40:40 UTC]

Created attachment 69598 [details]
omnitty-0.2.9 ebuild as plain text

[Comment 5 Ralf Fischer 2005-09-30 17:52:49 UTC]

[X] uploaded as text/plain
[ ] for patch to omnitty open separate bug [Y/N]?

[Comment 6 Ralf Fischer 2005-10-01 07:10:08 UTC]

Created attachment 69633 [details]
ebuild for omnitty using patch supplying a new parameter to provide option to set termwidth

[Comment 7 Ralf Fischer 2005-10-01 07:10:57 UTC]

Created attachment 69634 [details, diff]
Patch referenced in attachment 69633 [details]

[Comment 8 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2005-10-01 08:45:56 UTC]

- einstall is an ugly workaround used for very broken Makefiles, better use 
"make DESTDIR="${D}" install" if possible
- the semicolons are superfluous

[Comment 9 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) 2013-04-06 12:44:18 UTC]

Created attachment 344636 [details]
omnitty-0.3.0.ebuild

Attached ebuild against last version, haven't tried the patch so that's the only thing left that needs to be added back (in a src_prepare function).

[Comment 10 Jonas Stein 2020-09-18 20:49:28 UTC]

this was the last release. Upstream seems to be dead since 15 years.