On Thursday 02 May 2002 19:48, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > Sorry to be (way) off topic here, > > Not that far off topic.
O.K. cool :) > Sounds like a pretty basic system. I hope there's a CPU and some memory! > :-) Well.. if you really think that's *needed*... ;-D > > oriented towards the role of 'device-controller'? > > I think you're barking up the wrong tree to some extent. Nyeah... yes and no. Though I see what you mean... > > Traits I'm looking for: > The first two traits describe the linux platform you need. Pretty much > *ANY* of the firewall/rescue type floppy disk linux's should work well for > you with a bit of customization. Yes, I realize this. What I was thinking was to minimize the amount of customization needed, by starting with something as close as possible to my goal.... > in network.conf, or remove the firewall setup scripts entirely, replacing > the whole thing with a simple script to configure your one interface Sounds like a fairly straightforward MO. Except I don't have a particularly precise picture of which scripts do what, when or how... Not that that's that big of a deal, who knows, I might even learn something in the process ;) > Anyway, when looking at the various single-disk linux options, there are a > few things you might want to check for that could make your job easier: > > init: > Some of the single-disk linux disto's come with a customized or minimal > version of init. Dachstein (and all other LEAF disto's, AFAIK) comes with > standard SysV init, and supports the /etc/rc?.d runlevel directories, > making it easy to get your custom program(s) running automatically. Good point. > cron: > Since you're talking about an alarm type function, you may find cron handy > if you don't want to keep track of time in your application. Again, cron > is included on Dachstein and other LEAF disto's. *Very* good point. Indeed this has me thinking that since, by nature, this host is going to be very 'time-centric', I might as well complicate matters further by making it a time 'mirror'. That is, let it synchronize with some timeserver 'out there', and then having it act as a local timeserver for my LAN... Any 'xntp.lrp' packages available? > Runtime Environment: > You only mention the requirement for a shell, but there are probably other > things you need as well. You can add these yourself if > something is missing, but ideally you want as much as possible included > "out of the box". Which was my point exactly, in asking for opinions :) > I think Dachstein, Bering, Oxygen, and most any of the myriad other > single-disk disto's would likely work fine for your application. I'd > probably pick one based on either your current experience (ie stick with > what you know), or what you would like to learn (ie I've been itching to > try out that Bering release). Yeah, you're right. I think Bering looks like a nice place to start... I *have* been wanting to get started on that. > You might also want to consider using some X-10 controllers, and slowly > turning on a light (or lights). You can get all the bits & pieces at > radio-shack, and you can still controll it with linux... Yeah I suppose, but since my electricity bill is big enough as it is, and light is readily available anyway, I think I'm going to stick with the concept of just selectively letting it in (the light, that is...) Also getting stuff from Radio Shack could prove pretty expensive, getting the stuff shipped to Denmark, and all... ;-P Thanks very much for the input. Nice to get some confirmation that even if I'm barking up trees, more or less at random, at least I'm in the right neck of the woods ;) Jon Clausen -- .signature ;) _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
