SSH on Macintosh computers

A commercial GUI implementation of ssh clients for the Macintosh is available from Databeast.

Using the terminal on OSX

To open Terminal, navigate to your Applications folder, open Utilities, and double click on Terminal.

Create your public/private key as follows:

ssh-keygen -t rsa1 -f user-name -P some passphrase

Info on the flags:
     -t      the type of key to create
     -f      file name (tomcat3 for example)

This writes your public and private key files into your ~/.ssh folder by default.
Email the public key file (it's a plain text file) to 2020Media. You will be notified when it is installed and ready.
When you are ready to login, from the prompt type:

ssh -l tomcat-3 -v -1 -i ~/.ssh/your-private-key your-server-hostname

     -l      user-name
     -v      verbose (optional)
     -1      forces it to use version one.
     -i      the location of the private key

Useful commands

Here are a few useful commands you can use, if you have appropriate permissions:

sh ./startup.sh      Start Tomcat
sh ./shutdown.sh     Stop Tomcat
tail -f logs/catalina.out   View live Catalina log
rm -R -f work/Standalone/_  Remove worker files
or rm -R -f work/Standalone/
ps auxwww|grep X     Check what tomcat processes are running (where X is your username)
history              View command history
exit                 Logout

If you'd like us to add any more commands, please contact us.

For more help on using the terminal, we suggest MacMapper