Re: tramp proxies-alist not working for me

[Michael Albinus]

George Nurser <gnurser@googlemail.com> writes:

> Hi,

Hi,

> To ssh into  our work computers e.g. nozzle.aaa.bbb.ccc.uk we need
> first to ssh into the gateway charon.aaa.bbb.ccc.uk:
>
> ssh charon.aaa.bbb.ccc.uk
>
> and then either
>
> ssh nozzle
>
> or ssh nozzle.aaa.bbb.ccc.uk
>
> I have set up ssh from the MBP and between charon and nozzle such that
> I do not need a password.
>
> Following the TRAMP 2.1.5 manual I then added to my
> ~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs\ Emacs/Preferences.el
>
> (add-to-list 'tramp-default-proxies-alist
>                   '("\\." nil "/ssh:charon.aaa.bbb.ccc.uk:"))
> (add-to-list 'tramp-default-proxies-alist
>                   '("\\.aaa\\.bbb\\.ccc\\.uk" nil nil))

Please try the following (only one setting):

(add-to-list 'tramp-default-proxies-alist
             '("nozzle" nil "/ssh:charon.aaa.bbb.ccc.uk:"))

> [Actually there seems to be a typo in the manual -- it has an extra
> single quote after uk:  '("\\.aaa\\.bbb\\.ccc\\.uk'" nil nil))]

There shall be \\' at the end, which means end-of-string.

> --George Nurser.

Best regards, Michael.