–> Download:csshX 0.74 <–

Bug fixes:

• The “extra_cluster_file” config option now works (great for sharing clusters on DropBox)
• The –spaces option now ignored on 10.7 since mission control doesn’t have space id’s. You can still use bounds mode to drag to another space.
• Slaves will move to the same space as the master on retile.
• Workaround for 10.6 Scripting-Bridge boolean bug is no longer used in 10.7
• Spaces hacks working reliably on 64bit
• More spelling fixes

New Features:

• Connect to one host “n” times with the “hostname+n” hostnames
• Not really a user feature, but the source code is now under git.

Updates to wiki and macports will come soon..

–> Download:csshX 0.73 <–

New Features:

• Configurable Ctrl character – if you don’t like Ctrl-A, (maybe it makes using screen to hard?) you can change it using action_key
• Terminal settings sets – You can choose an alternative terminal settings set (colors, fonts, etc) to use, instead of the default, when opening csshX terminal windows. One use case is to have a settings set without the audible bell, so csshX doesn’t deafen you when you trigger a beep in 20 windows). See master_settings_set and slave_settings_set
• Hosts files – you can provide a list of hosts to connect to, and optionally remote commands to run, in a file or even piped through stdin. See hosts.
• More window sorting options – including interleave so you can have your terminals sorted vertically instead of horizontally

Bug fixes:

• Many spelling corrections – thanks to Mitch Silverstein
• Reduced memory footprint of the slaves by delaying the loading of modules (15MB per slave, down to 6MB on my box)
• Fixed spaces support on 64bit machines
• Fixed layout gaps on multi-monitor systems

Enjoy…

1 – Jailbreak your iPhone

2 – Using Cydia, install the following packages

3 – Start SSH and get your IP address

4 – Check SSH is working

computer# ssh root@1.2.3.4

iphone# passwd root

Changing password for root.

New password: <type password>

Retype new password: <type password again>

iphone# passwd mobile

Changing password for mobile.

New password: <type another password>

Retype new password: <type another password again>

iphone# logout

5 – Create the following two files on your computer:

dns.sh

#!/bin/sh

LAST_IP=xxx

while (true); do

IP=`ifconfig  pdp_ip0 | grep inet |  cut -d " " -f 2`

if [ "$IP" != "" ]; then

if [ "$IP" != "$LAST_IP" ]; then

RES=`wget -qO - --no-check-certificate --user=username --password=password "https://members.easydns.com/dyn/dyndns.php?hostname=iphone.example.com&myip=${IP}"`

if [ "$RES" == "NOERROR" ]; then

LAST_IP=$IP

fi

fi

fi

sleep 60

done

easydns.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>Label</key>

<string>easydns</string>

<key>OnDemand</key>

<false/>

<key>ProgramArguments</key>

<array>

<string>/bin/bash</string>

<string>/var/root/dns.sh</string>

</array>

<key>StandardErrorPath</key>

<string>/dev/null</string>

</dict>

</plist>

6 - Copy the files to the phone

computer# scp dns.sh root@1.2.3.4:/var/root/

computer# scp easydns.plist root@1.2.3.4:/Library/LaunchDaemons/

7 – Setup permissions and Launchd item

computer# ssh root@1.2.3.4

iphone# chmod +x dns.sh

iphone# sh -x ./dns.sh

+ RES=NOERROR

iphone# launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/easydns.plist

iphone# ps -ef |grep dns

0  1886     1   0   0:00.22 ??   0:00.29 /bin/bash /var/root/dns.sh

8 – You’re done

Try connecting to your phone by name:

computer# ssh root@iphone.example.com

• csshX 0.72

Bug Fixes:

• Dragging the bounds window between spaces now works (this is implemented in some embedded Ruby since there was no simple way to do it in Perl).
• Fixed crash when opening windows to hosts that failed.
• Reworked the coloring of windows in select/enable/disable mode. Those rare cases when the color was not reset should be fixed.

Features:

• Much faster at opening windows. Some nasty AppleEvents code has helped grab control of the opened window faster.
• –space command line option (and equivalent config command) to open csshX windows in a particular space.

I now have no bugs, and no user feature requests, so I’m getting bored. ;-)

Feedback welcome..

For Earth Day – the ecological carbon-free release ;-)

Two new versions of csshX are now available!!

As you may remember, I ran into problems with the release of 64bit Snow Leopard. This was due to Apple dropping carbon support in 64bit perl. The work-around at the time was to run the program using 32bit perl. Obviously this was not the long-term solution.

To control Terminal.app, instead of using the, carbon based, MacPerl module to call the Applescript, the advice was to use the NSAppleScript cocoa class through the PerlObjCBridge perl module. Although this worked great for calling scripts, getting the return value from scripts was extremely messy (NSAppleScript seems only half finished). I then had a look at the ScriptingBridge SBApplication class. This gives me an Objective-C like interface to applescript (although it is much more deceptive than it looks). This was much more suitable and so csshX was changed to use it*.

The downside of this is that 10.4 does not support the ScriptingBridge and so any legacy 10.4 user out there (are there any?) will be stuck on csshX 0.65 forever (0.65 is just a minor bug-fix release to 0.64).

The new csshX 0.70 is a major rewrite of the Terminal.app handling. This appears to make things a lot more responsive, but of course, it may have introduced other bugs. One major benefit is that I can now reliably get handles back for the windows created – this means no more race conditions if you click on any Terminal window while csshX is starting.

Other new features (as way of a bribe to get you to try this) are:

• Growl messages for certain events. This is experimental, so please let me know if you would like more information, or if it’s too annoying (see the man page for how to disable it).
• –ssh command line switch to specify the ssh command (handy if you have some wrapper script).
• Keyboard cursor based move/resize in the bounds-setting mode (in case you hate reaching for the mouse).

You can grab the packages here:

• csshX 0.70 - For 10.5 and newer
  csshX 0.71 – For 10.5 and newer (without the 64bit bug!)
  
• csshX 0.65 – For 10.4

As usual feedback, especially bug reports, are greatly appreciated.

csshX now on Twitter!

* Nearly.. there is a bug introduced in 10.6 PerlObjCBridge that prevents it calling functions that return boolean values (quite common in Applescript). A bug report has been opened with Apple. In the interim, some of the ScriptingBridge calls are actually being substituted with NSAppleScript ones.

New Features

• Host and Subnet Ranges – see below
• Ping test hosts before attempting to connect
• Sort terminals by hostname
• Zoom a single terminal to ‘full screen’ key binding
• Added “enable next terminal” key binding
• Added “send slaveid” (a guaranteed unique ID) to a terminal
• Check for users odd shell settings in Terminal.app

Bug Fixes

• Added the work-around for 10.6 64bit
• Better window placement (less overlaps)
• Use the system stty, not macports
• Better handling of terminal color changes
• Lots of doc typos and spelling fixes (and probably some new ones)

Get it here:

csshX-0.64.tgz

Hostname ranges

192.168.1.0/28

192.168.1.0/255.255.255.240

hostname[0-10]

192.168.0.[5-20]

host-[prod,dev][a-f]

192.168.[0,2-3].[1-2,3-5]

192.168.0.1:22[1-9]

csshX now on Twitter!

• http://websaver.googlecode.com/files/websaver-2.5.dmg

Finally, after patching Unimotion and turning on garbage collection, I have reports that WebSaver is working properly on 64-bit Snow Leopard machines.

As always, I was dependent on the kindness of others for the testing, since I don’t have a 64-bit Apple machine. Please let me know how you get on.

• websaver-2.3.dmg

As you can see, I have moved the source to Google Code, and so any issues can be reported on the issues page.

Cheesy disclaimer: I don’t have a 10.6 64bit capable machine for testing :-( . Please let me know if it works.

• User@host:port style names should work properly now
• -x -y arguments documented properly
• More meaningful warnings if your configured clusters are badly declared

New Feature:

• “f” in bounds mode, now resizes csshX to take the full screen.

Get it here:

csshX-0.63

• Improved tiling:
  • Can specify rows/columns on the command line
  • Can change row columns Ctrl-a g and Ctrl-a G

• Prevented spawned ssh commands from polluting bash history

Get it here:

csshX-0.62.tgz