Oh. Oh! I get it. The updates are running after every reboot, grabbing the old image file, and then updating the packages all over again! I can see it in the apt log!
Thank you very much, Alkis! Thanks! Adam Fischer Systems Administrator KSC Corporate - The Kelly Supply Family of Companies 1004 W Oklahoma Ave, Grand Island, NE 68801 Office 308-382-8764 Ext. 1130 On 04/28/2017 09:38 AM, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote: > 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. >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _____________________________________________________________________ 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
