-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am not exactly sure what you are referring to (runonce.vbs from http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/solutions/appcompat/runonce-vbs.mspx)? Most of the sites I have seen, have an image of a machine that needs to be rejoined to a domain. Regular login scripts and Group Policy take care of the rest. Basically, AFAIK, runonce is not standard windows practice. The script I saw can have the same task better accomplished and managed via Group Policy. But that is just me (and waaaaaaay OT, sorry Aaron)
I also do not know what you mean by "whether the runonce script is standard Linux functionality that I can count on being available in all distros...". As long as the target system has bash (assuming the script you are using is written in bash), a script should be portable to other distros. Of course given the high degree of variance between distros, no one can say with certainty that such a script will work across all distros. Likely you will need a transport mechanism, so at a minimum, ssh/scp is likely also needed. Most distros should keep a skeleton profile settings in /etc/skel/.bash* Modify these to create a uniform custom environment. I have also seen a few scripts that do this on a per user basis, usually called movein.sh, once such example can be found here: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/h/72 Jon wrote: > Can someone confirm or deny the existence and functionality of a runonce > script in Linux? My machine is happily compiling some stuff so I won't > be able to reboot for a while to test it out myself. > > I'm writing an article on Win4Lin Virtual Desktop Server. One of the > steps involves each user exporting the master profile to their own > account once the master profile is set in stone. For organizations with > large amounts of pre-existing users, this is going to suck. I imagine a > little rudimentary bash scripting could take care of running this export > under each account, but I'm also thinking that a runonce script for each > user could do it as well. Some Googling around provides some results, > but I'm not too sure on whether the runonce script is standard Linux > functionality that I can count on being available in all distros of it > it's distro specific. > > Any pointers would be appreciated. > > Thanks! > > J > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFOT19wRXgH3rKGfMRAkKuAJwM/B2Wc4G22zNlBO36QlLc2lagJwCdFi4k Spm9JOEYVMICWY3tE4m6pjY= =avWx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
