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Mac OS X tips and tricks

Just a few tips and tricks for unix types on Mac OS X

tunnelling via ssh

So this took me ages, and caused me a lot of pain. If you want to use ssh tunnelling (e.g. with tinyproxy) on Mac OS X (tiger / leopard at least), you'll need to run ssh -CL port1:127.0.0.1:port2 remoteserver as opposed to the usual ssh -CL port1:localhost:port2 remoteserver which somehow gets mapped to something else (I read something about IpV6 compliance...?). Very annoying. However, after replacing this, I was able to happily run a tinyproxy server on my work computer, tunnel in and access the ip-restricted websited I needed to (like journals etc.).