Shell and DoC Systems, Lab 2
Remote Working, gitlab, and LabTS
Chapter 4: Working Remotely from Outside the College
Automatically connecting to a free machine
Don’t want to use your brainpower to find a free machine?
When you’re on one of the login nodes, you can also run a script to automatically find and SSH into a free lab machine. The script is located at /vol/linux/bin/sshtolab, and can be run like so:
username@vm-shell1:~$ /vol/linux/bin/sshtolab
username@texel13:~$ ls
Once you’re done, you can logout and return to the login node with logout, as before:
username@texel13:~$ logout
username@shell2:~$
From a command line (Linux, macOS, or WSL), you can enter the following to SSH to a login node and immediately run the sshtolab script, all in one line:
name@HOME:~$ ssh -t USERNAME@shell5.doc.ic.ac.uk /vol/linux/bin/sshtolab
And there you have it!