I’m trying to spawn an SSH from my bash profile script that runs in the background for connection sharing (via its control socket). The problem I’m running into is a reliable way to ensure the SSH doesn’t stay running once the TTY is closed (or more directly; once the parent bash shell has exited).
I have a command, which looks like so:
I am logged into ssh to a university account from my home computer. Then I find a file that I want to copy onto my local system. So I open a new shell terminal and am about to use scp to copy that file onto my system. But the path to the file on the system I am ssh‘ed into is long so I select it with the mouse and then paste it with the mouse into the other locally connected terminal.
I essentially want to run a script on machine A which will SSH into machine B, execute commands on B, and return the output to machine A.
I use ssh-add to add my SSH keys to the SSH agent. By default, it adds them indefinitely. There’s a command-line option to specify a timeout, but is there a configuration file option which will specify the default timeout?
I have a wordpress website hosted on AWS Lightsail. On that website, I would like to use a shortcode to retrieve data from a database using mysqli. However, everytime the script that connects to the database is executed, I receive a connection error. The database is on the same AWS Lightsail instance.
I was wondering if I need to establish an SSH-tunnel because this is also needed if I connect to phpmyadmin. But since the script is executed on the server itself this does not really makes sense in my understanding. I have used the exact same code on a local host and it worked perfectly fine. What am I missing here?
Enter my question: When I SSH into the Linux web server where my website is hosted, how do I perform a git pull origin dev so that git doesn’t delete my entire WordPress site, replacing it with only the folders/files in the repo?