Rough Book

I set up git on my FreeBSD box so that I can commit my code to GitHub. Today I tried to scp some stuff over and I was met with this rather unhelpful message:

vivin@serenity ~/Projects/code
$ scp -r vivin@www.vivin.net:~/code/agnostic .
Password:
ps: Process environment requires procfs(5)
Initializing new SSH agent...

vivin@serenity ~/Projects/code
$

I fixed the procfs problem by adding the following to my /etc/fstab:

proc                    /proc           procfs  rw              0       0
linproc                 /compat/linux/proc      linprocfs       rw      0       0

and then running:

vivin@enterprise ~
$ sudo mount /compat/linux/proc

vivin@enterprise ~
$ sudo mount /proc

So I try to scp again and I get:

vivin@serenity ~/Projects/code
$ scp -r vivin@www.vivin.net:~/code/agnostic .
Password:
Initializing new SSH agent...

vivin@serenity ~/Projects/code
$

WTF? Then I remembered making some changes to my .bashrc to be able to commit to github:

function start_agent {
  echo "Initializing new SSH agent..."
  /usr/bin/ssh-agent | sed 's/^echo/#echo/' > "${SSH_ENV}"
  echo succeeded
  chmod 600 "${SSH_ENV}"
  . "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null
  /usr/bin/ssh-add;
}

# Source SSH settings, if applicable
if [ -f "${SSH_ENV}" ]; then
  . "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null
  #ps ${SSH_AGENT_PID} doesn't work under cywgin
  ps -ef | grep ${SSH_AGENT_PID} | grep ssh-agent$ > /dev/null || {
    start_agent;
  }
else
  start_agent;
fi

I pulled all that out of my .bashrc and made a separate shell script for it. After I did that, scp started working again. I had no idea that calling scp would actually run .bashrc

It runs Applets!!! I can use the SSH Applet!! WOOHOOOOOO!!!

What’s going on? Sorry for this spree of Journal Entries. I haven’t used a computer in over 3 weeks and I was having withdrawal symptoms – and now that I have access to one (with the bare minimum of utilities) I’m a little hyper. By the way, here’s a link to the Java SSH Client that I mentioned. It’s pretty neat. I was able to fix my page from here.

How are things here… hmm… HARD. As luck would have it, I’m in a really hard company – G Company and they’re BIG on PT (Physical Training). To give you an example, last Wednesday we did a 4 mile company run in 100+F and 60% Humidity. Yeah, so I’m getting my ass kicked. But I haven’t fallen out of any runs yet. And I’m not going to either.

That’s pretty much it. Classes are boring ass hell – all about filling out forms. It’s easy but BORING. I keep nodding off. Must stop doing that! But other than that, its just all about getting used to the routine. I’m pretty sure I can do it. It’s definitely easier than Basic Training. You have a lot more freedom, but you have to be responsible too.

Well that’s pretty much it. I might be here next week. See y’all then!

Don’t worry about the journal entry. I fixed it! I’m just sooo good. Check out MindTerm . It’s a Java SSH Client Applet for IE. It’s real good! I used that to get to the database… cool huh??

See you all next week!