[11011001]

So here's the situation.

My stupid IT department at my university does not allow us to access the course newsgroup servers outside of the department network.

This is retarded. I have to ssh, with X11 forwarding, and then launch netscape on the remote computer, and read the newsgroup from there. It's way to slow.

So here is what I am thinking. The newsgroup work on port 119. I have access to computers on the cpsc network, through ssh.

Could I forward 119 from on of these computers, to my computer at home? That way, it would be like I was accessing the newsgroup as though I were actually on the cpsc network.

Can someone give me the command to do this. I can't get it to work.

I have been trying something like this from my own computer at home:

ssh -L 119:csh.cpsc.myuniversity.ca:119 localhost

(this i tried to figure out from the man pages)

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by 11011001:
So here is what I am thinking. The newsgroup work on port 119. I have access to computers on the cpsc network, through ssh.

Could I forward 119 from on of these computers, to my computer at home? That way, it would be like I was accessing the newsgroup as though I were actually on the cpsc network.

ssh -L 119:csh.cpsc.myuniversity.ca:119 localhost

You're pretty close. Remember however that to map to any port less than 1024 you have to be root. So, you need to do something like this:

sudo ssh -f -g -L 119:localhost:119 my_userid@csh.cpsc.myuniversity.ca "while [ true ]; do sleep 100; done"

This assumes you're using bash or a bourne shell as your shell on the remote host (csh.cpsc.myuniversity.ca in this example). If you're using cshell you'll have to replace the while loop with a cshell while loop.

[11011001]

what is the fork instruction stuff for?