Marcus,
A simple test, to see if local apps are working, is to do
something like:
rsh ws001 free
That should run the 'free' command on WS001, and display the results back
to you.
Note, that you normally can't do that as root, because NIS won't
authenticate root
for you.
You should also be able to telnet to the workstation. When you enable local
apps, it enables the telnet daemon. again, you can't normally log in as
root.
And, the 'LOCAL_WM' parameter is no longer used.
Hope that helps,
Jim McQuillan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Marcus Smith wrote:
>Hi.
>
>I've got an issue. My clients all use KDE, StarOffice, and Mozilla as their
>basic tools. I can already hear some of you in the back asking, "Need some more
>memory, buddy?" In fact, this is the problem. I couldn't help but notice that
>Mozilla 0.9.6 has a few quirks. Namely, it will randomly vanish from the
>client's screens without actually killing the process. So the user opens another
>session of Mozilla and this cycle repeats. With only a dozen users so far, my
>server with 768 megs of RAM is already topped, nearly all of it from Mozilla
>usage. I'd like to try Opera, I can't it to work at all.
>
>But then I've been toying with the idea of using local apps. Perhaps this will
>solve the problem if the app is kept locally on the client. So I did what I
>could to get local apps running (I'm using 2.09pre4) and I *think* its working
>because I stalled the local_apps program and edited my lts.conf file to contain
>LOCAL_WM = Y and LOCAL_APPS = Y for a specific client without crashing like it
>used to do before I fixed a small NIS glitch. But now I'm a bit confused as to
>how exactly to make it work so the application the client runs is actually run
>locally. In the docs I read the bit about getting Netscape to run locally so I
>decided to experiment with that first. I downloaded the local_netscape files
>and copied the tree so now I have and /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/local/netscape folder.
>Then I made a shell script with the following lines to execute it that I just
>copied from the documentation:
>
>HOST=`echo $DISPLAY | awk -F: '{ print $1 }'`
>rsh ${HOST} MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/local/netscape \
> /usr/local/netscape/netscape -display ${DISPLAY}
>
>Okay. The problem I have now is that if I run this script nothing happens. From
>a command line, it just freezes unless I CTRL-C out of it. But nothing else
>happens, even after several minutes.
>
>So here are my questions:
>1) What could I be doing wrong getting Netscape to work locally?
>2) My users hate the way Netscape looks, which is why they dig Mozilla,
>especially the tabbing feature. Is there any way to get Mozilla to run locally?
>3) If I can get Mozilla to run locally, would this actually help me with the
>bigger problem of extreme memory usage on the server?
>
>As always, thanks for any help. I do appreciate it.
>
>
>
>
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