Jean-Michel Dault wrote: > Le lundi 27 août 2007 à 13:22 -0500, Scott Balneaves a écrit : > >> The biggest problem with running sshd on the thin client is mainly >> a performance issue: if you've got 1ghz clients with goodly amount >> of ram, yeah, it's a great solution. Problem is, we've got a lot >> of people running some really low end hardware, who, understandably, >> want all the bells and whistles, but have some acheingly bad hardware. > > Don't forget that you can run ssh under inetd/xinetd, which means that, > until there's a connection, you don't use any resources. > > Many LTSP services could benefit from inetd/xinetd: > - printing > - reboot > - local applications > - ltspfs > - etc. > > The main disadvantage of running xinetd is that it adds a small delay, > but for all these services, it's not a problem.
Good point, we'd have to do some fancy footwork for a few things: 1) We don't want a static inetd.conf, as if no printer's defined for a terminal, there's no point in starting jetpipe at all. So, what we'd want to do, on boot, is zero out the inetd.conf file, and then update-inetd calls based on things like if PRINTER_0_DEV/PORT are set, LOCALDEV=true are set, etc. 2) Some services would need to be modified to work under inetd, i.e. both ltspfsd and jetpipe bind to ports, as opposed to listening on stdin/out, however, this is just a case of turning the crank. Some further investigation/discussion would be needed to see if this is a worthwhile way to go. Cheers, Scott -- Scott L. Balneaves | "Eternity is a very long time, Systems Department | especially towards the end." Legal Aid Manitoba | -- Woody Allen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
