TERM clients
TERM provides several default clients. They include trsh, tmon, tupload, tredir,
txconn and in newer versions trdate, trdated. Furthermore, starting with version 2.0.0 tudpredir is available and from version 2.1.0 tdownload is available. This section will deal with trsh, tmon, tupload, tdownload, trdate and trdated.
The others each have their own section. No TERM client
will work until you have established a TERM link.
tmon is a simple utility to monitor the statistics of your
link. It prints a time histogram of characters transmitted and
received. It is invoked simply as tmon. Since around
version 1.11, tmon has had a bug that causes some
information to be garbled (??).
trsh is similar to rsh. Without arguments, it spawns
an interactive shell on the remote system (i.e. it logs you
in). trsh is one of the primary means of accessing the
remote end of the link via TERM. If given an argument,
trsh executes that argument as a command on the remote
system. For example
trsh lswould give you a listing of the files in your home directory on the remote system.
tupload will transfer a file, given as its first argument, from local to remote. By default, the files will be put in the
same directory that you invoked TERM from at the other
side. To put files in another directory, give their names as a second
argument to tupload. For example, if I want to put a copy
of the file 'term114.tar.gz' in '/usr/tmp' on the
remote system, I would type
tupload term114.tar.gz /usr/tmp.
When you use tupload you can use wild cards like in 'tupload a.*'. The shell expands the wild card and tupload is called as 'tupload a.1 a.2 ......'.
tdownload will transfer a file, given as its first argument, from remote to local. By default, the files will be put in the
same directory that you invoked TERM from at the local
side. To put files in another directory, give their names as a second
argument to tdownload. For example, if I want to put a copy
of the file 'term114.tar.gz' in '/usr/tmp' on the
local system, I would type
tdownload term114.tar.gz /usr/tmp.
When you use tdownload you cannot use wild cards like in 'tdownload a.*'. Reason for this is that the remote directory is not available to your local shell when you use tdownload; so your local shell cannot expand the wild cards.
trdate is a time setting utility. It reads the time on the remote machine and sets the local clock to the remote time. It must be run as root.
trdated is the daemon version of trdate. When it is started in 'rc.local' it is run as daemon in which case it updates the time every 5 minutes (default). Even when there is no TERM connection, this daemon will start up when set in the rc.local. Once a TERM connection is created it starts updating the time.
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