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I've been looking for a way of multiplexing several ssh sessions. By that I mean the ability to type once, and the result happens in x ssh sessions. Thanks to someone on the FreeBSD UK user list I came across cssh (http://freshmeat.net/projects/cssh/). This does pretty much what I need, and so far I've had no problems with it.

What would be ideal though is functionality built into the window manager to do the same thing, so I 'tag' any number of windows, even varying applications, and my keyboard input, (maybe even mouse) is copied to all windows. For instance I could be typing into 3 ssh sessions and an instance of vi to record my typing.

If you get the following while trying to run up2date:

RPM error.  The message was:
Could not determine what version of Red Hat Linux you are running.
If you get this error, try running 

                rpm --rebuilddb

You may want to check to see if the redhat-release RPM is installed. Installing this fixed the problem for me.

For some reason it seems very difficult to get Samba mounts to work from FreeBSD's fstab. I think I've got the (a?) magic formula:

<fstab>
//bob@sambaserver/share        /the/local/mount/point  smbfs   rw,noauto,-I=10.11.12.13      0 0
</fstab>

where:

bob = username
sambaserver = netbios server name
share = share name
10.11.12.13 = IP address of sambaserver

and

<.nsmbrc>
[SAMBASERVER:BOB]
password=bobspassword
</.nsmbrc>

Put .nsmbrc in root's home directory and make sure it isn't readable by anyone else. The bit in square brakets needs to be in capitals.