Am Mittwoch, 27. Oktober 2004 20:49 schrieb Liam Marshall: > I believe the problem I am having Pushing Items to Desktops is related > to the fact that the majority of my users home directories are NOT > directly off of the Home directory. Instead they are off of branches in > the home directory > > ie: /home/com30s/user1, /home/com30s/user2, etc > ie: /home/saps/user1, /home/saps/user2, etc > > I tried pushing icons to them and they only appear if their home > directory is off of Home directly. How could I push them to these other > branches, if possible. That would be much appreaciated. Typing in long > urls in 30 copies of the browser is not so hard for junior or senior > high students but takes a prohibitavely long time for elementary > grades. An icon pointing to the site would be best, and pushing said > icon to every desktop would be the best way of doing that > > Please Please help
I probably somehow missed an introduction on how you intended this "icon pushing" to work, but for retrieving the home directory of a used, the following expression might be helpful (assuming there's only one occurence of "/home/" per line in /etc/passwd) grep "^anselm\:" /etc/passwd | sed "s/.*\(\/home\/[^:]*\).*/\1/" finds user "anselm" in the passwd database and prints the homedirectory to stdout. This might be used to use a copy command for a certain username, as in cp example.txt `grep "^anselm\:" /etc/passwd | sed "s/.*\(\/home\/[^:]*\).*/\1/"`/Documents/example.txt (notice the backticks ` ` around above expression). Hth Anselm ------------------------------------------------------- This Newsletter Sponsored by: Macrovision For reliable Linux application installations, use the industry's leading setup authoring tool, InstallShield X. Learn more and evaluate today. http://clk.atdmt.com/MSI/go/ins0030000001msi/direct/01/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
