I just discovered a way that will solve a long standing problem with LTSP in Debian Edu. The problem is simply that none of the users logged in from a thin client show up as logged in on the thin client server. The reason is how SSH works, by default not updating /var/run/utmp when ssh is used to run a command remotely (as in 'ssh somehost command'). This can be changed by forcing ssh to allocate a tty using -t.
To demonstrate: % ssh user.skolelinux.no who|grep pere %ssh -t user.skolelinux.no who|grep pere Connection to user.skolelinux.no closed. pere pts/6 2008-06-05 15:29 (88.131.81.122) % I have yet to test this on a thin client, but suspect all we need to do is to change the ssh call in ldm to add -t. JFYI. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
