Sherwood Botsford wrote: > Why are you reluctant to run ssh?
The biggest problem with running sshd on the thin client is mainly a performance issue: if you've got 1ghz clients with goodly amount of ram, yeah, it's a great solution. Problem is, we've got a lot of people running some really low end hardware, who, understandably, want all the bells and whistles, but have some acheingly bad hardware. Just a few weeks ago, I bumped into a fellow who's got a few hundred machines with, like, 200 Mhz processors and 16 megs (!) of ram. They worked, barely, on an older ltsp version with a 2.4 kernel, but now don't under ltsp5, due to 2.6 kernels being much bigger, and the size of the initramfs. Of course, he wanted sound, localdevs, graphics, and any other bling going that he could. We couldn't make it work for him, and the last time I talked, he was going to have to see about finding more ram for the boxes. > Method 2: > On the server create a new file system. Can be quite small. > Let it be mountable rw by all clients. Mount it as > "remote_commands" In this directory, create a directory for each > client, with the name of the cleint. > > On the client, create a cron job that periodically checks for the > contents of /remote_commands/`hostname`/ > If it finds a script there, it copies the script to /tmp, deletes > the script from the server, then executes it. (Or the last line > of the script can delete the script. I like this method, however, only thing I'd change would be to replace cron with a small inotify util. It would be small, with a low memory consumption. Scott -- Scott L. Balneaves | "Eternity is a very long time, Systems Department | especially towards the end." Legal Aid Manitoba | -- Woody Allen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
