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Ok - I succeeded
OK - Success - I got it working.
But getting into the console (to flatten the land witha a
"terrain fill 21" command) was hell.
"ssh to the instance using the hostname shown in the launcher." indeed !
and
"use the certificate file......login as root with the ssh key."
What was that about easy for non-geeks ?
After downloading and trying three SSH clients, all of which seemed to have different capabilities and required formats for these damned keys/certificates, I struggled through by using an extra tool with Putty to generate two keys from the certificate .pem file.
Absolute hell, and I'm still not totally sure how it finally worked, despite hours of googling, reading and experimenting.
I think it was worse because I chose not to put in a key pair at the start (didn't know how) and it was too late to go back so I had to get my SSH client to sort it out and finally to convert the certificate since I could find no client able to directly use it.
Without accessing the console the sim is pretty useless as you only have a little pimple island in a big sea. So this SSH authentication thing simply has to be mastered. And with the greatest respect the best solution is for the SOD instructions to tell us how, from first principles. How to get a key pair in the first place, which client to get, and how to set it up to
"ssh to the instance using the hostname shown in the launcher."
However, I flattened my land, and was pretty pleased with my sim.
Only one tiny gripe - moving was just perceptibly sticky, and when I checked Statistics, Time Dilation was at an absolutely constant 0.93. Not the case on grids I visit. Odd.
Now I want help please, in uploading terrain data to change the shape of my land. I have my own data, and want to use it.
Altogether an excellent way of getting a sim to play with, and apart from the SSH'ing, pretty straightforward.
Recommended for those who understand SSH, and for others if the instructions get a bit fleshed out on that topic.
Lots of fun.
But getting into the console (to flatten the land witha a
"terrain fill 21" command) was hell.
"ssh to the instance using the hostname shown in the launcher." indeed !
and
"use the certificate file......login as root with the ssh key."
What was that about easy for non-geeks ?
After downloading and trying three SSH clients, all of which seemed to have different capabilities and required formats for these damned keys/certificates, I struggled through by using an extra tool with Putty to generate two keys from the certificate .pem file.
Absolute hell, and I'm still not totally sure how it finally worked, despite hours of googling, reading and experimenting.
I think it was worse because I chose not to put in a key pair at the start (didn't know how) and it was too late to go back so I had to get my SSH client to sort it out and finally to convert the certificate since I could find no client able to directly use it.
Without accessing the console the sim is pretty useless as you only have a little pimple island in a big sea. So this SSH authentication thing simply has to be mastered. And with the greatest respect the best solution is for the SOD instructions to tell us how, from first principles. How to get a key pair in the first place, which client to get, and how to set it up to
"ssh to the instance using the hostname shown in the launcher."
However, I flattened my land, and was pretty pleased with my sim.
Only one tiny gripe - moving was just perceptibly sticky, and when I checked Statistics, Time Dilation was at an absolutely constant 0.93. Not the case on grids I visit. Odd.
Now I want help please, in uploading terrain data to change the shape of my land. I have my own data, and want to use it.
Altogether an excellent way of getting a sim to play with, and apart from the SSH'ing, pretty straightforward.
Recommended for those who understand SSH, and for others if the instructions get a bit fleshed out on that topic.
Lots of fun.
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Inappropriate?Very very happy to note that your are successful. All your feedback are very valid and extremely valuable.
>Now I want help please, in uploading terrain data to change the shape of my >land. I have my own data, and want to use it.
To load your own terrain, if you have opensim console access it is very simple. If your terrain file name is myterrain.r32 ( and assuming it is at /vol folder),in the Region#: prompt type:
terrain load /vol/myterrain.r32
Now, how to get the terrain file on to the running instance. The right yet geeky way to do it is using secure cp( or scp). Since getting scp to work is equally challenging as ssh, I'll suggest an alternative. Upload the terrain file on to your favorite web based file sharing service that give a url of the file for download.Use the wget command to download to the running instance.
SSH to the instance and then,
cd /vol
wget url-of-the-terrain-file
Substitute url-of-the-terrain-file with the actual url of the terrain file( as given by the web based file sharing service)
After looking at your SSH feedback, I'm already exploring how to integrate opensim console access with the launcher application.
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Inappropriate?I can't open the run.bat file in the Sim OnDemand folder. Firefox keeps crashing. I have tried to set IE as the default browser thinking maybe that will run the run.bat file. But, it still wants to use Firefox. I have deleted the Sim OnDemand folders and redownloaded a couple of times. Restarted my pc, and still nothing. It still keeps trying to use Firefox to run the folder. I even went in and replaced firefox with internet explorer in the script, but that won't work either.
Any idea about how I can get the file to run. The only I haven't tried is uninstalling Firefox and reinstalling it.
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Inappropriate?Dear Soprandi,
SimOnDemand launcher application does not run in IE. It works only in firefox.
Here is the recommended way of running Sim-OnDemand launcher application.
1) Start a firefox browser session ( by clicking the firefox icon in the desktop). This is the plain old regular firefox session.
2) While the 'plain old regular' firefox browser session is on , run the Sim-OnDemand batch file( run.bat). This will start one more firefox session.
If it is still crashing, please let me know by sending details to labsji at gmail dot com. Please include details like OS version, Firefox version. Virus protection software details. Any other warnings and other messages that you think will be relevant for resolution.
Much appreciating your feedback.
-Balaji
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