Release Mosh - the mobile shell


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I've just uploaded mosh to the repo. It is a bit inelegant that I had to include an upgraded version of perl (and probably more perl modules than needed), otherwise the PND could have been much smaller.


Please try it out - I haven't been able to really test it myself yet, since I'm currently at a conference and I cannot test it here since my internet connection seems to be behind an annoying firewall, and also because I don't have any servers to connect to where mosh is installed or where I can easily install it myself. Please let me know if it works.


Anyway, it seems to be a promising little application, especially for an ultra-portable long battery life device like the Pandora - now you can basically keep your ssh sessions open forever, even if you suspend the Pandora or toggle wifi a lot etc. It should also help a lot to improve responsiveness.
 
I wouldn't have heard of it either if it wasn't for this post:





So thanks to b3w for mentioning it.
 
non standard port is not working with mosh pnd


$ mosh --ssh="ssh -p 1234" name@1.2.3.4


/mnt/utmp/mosh/mosh.pl: connect to host 1.2.3.4 port 22: Connection refused
 
As a workaround, you can probably use a ~/.ssh/config file to specify the nonstandard port you're using, instead of using the command line argument. I have no idea why it is ignoring that argument - I'll look into it.
 
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