On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 08:09:36PM +0200, Lars Madsen wrote: > that is what AMD is already doing.
If you are mounting directly, then why is $HOME a symlink? I'm not familiar with AMD, so maybe that's the way it does things. > well we've been using AMD for years so we are not likely to change any > time soon. Heh, not suggesting you should, simply pointing out what the problem is. Your network is, of course, yours to manage. :) > Wouldn't 'grep -E "/$USER/"' be enough to ensure uniqueness? We are now > looking for a delimited name, basically in the same way as you're doing > with the search for $HOME. /etc/passwd: sbalneav:x:2048:2048:Scott Balneaves:/home/scottshome:/bin/bash $USER = sbalneav $HOME = /home/scottshome Unix makes no restrictions that the home directory has to, in any way, be named like the userid. /home/$USER is merely a convention, not a requirement. > having 1600 potential users and soon more than 10 servers, then > reconfiguring everything is just not something that we are going to do. > We have enough to do as it is. *shugs*, that's fine. However, my point stands: We mount in $HOME, therefore, we search for $HOME. If your $HOME doesn't map to a real home directory, that's a byproduct of how you've set up environment, not a "problem" in the script. You'll have to maintain your own private version of the lbus_event_handler.sh script. Cheers, Scott -- Scott L. Balneaves | "Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us Systems Department | To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side..." Legal Aid Manitoba | -- Pink Floyd "High Hopes" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _____________________________________________________________________ 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
