Add "apt-daily" to the RM_SYSTEM_SERVICES lts.conf directive,
because now apt runs on boot for your clients,
wasting a whole lot of RAM...

This was added in LTSP after Ubuntu 16.04...

On 28/04/2017 05:03 μμ, Adam Fischer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been using ltsp with thin clients for a while now, and have
> recently been deploying ltsp-pnp with Fat Cleints.
>
> One of the things that I'm failing to grasp is how the software updates
> work.  My understanding has been that with fat clients, in order for
> them to get updated software, I have to update the ltsp client image.
> Well, today, I found that one of my ltsp servers has been doing security
> updates automatically.  So I looked at which packages were updated, and
> I decided to check the versions against what was running on the fat
> clients.  They were the same.  I looked, and the ltsp image on the
> server is much older than the update.  So in my mind, the software on
> the fat client should have been an older version, up until I would have run:
>
> ltsp-update-image --cleanup /
>
> So, my question is, how did the software get updated?  Does the ltsp
> image even get used with ltsp-pnp?  It's very confusing, because the
> documentation on the Ubuntu Wiki and others indicate that you /have/ to
> run the above command to push software updates to the clients.
>
> I'm asking both out of curiosity, and to maybe clean up my procedures,
> as well as have a better understanding for future troubleshooting.
>


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