On Feb 13, 2005, at 4:14 PM, Ean Kingston wrote:
On February 13, 2005 03:53 am, Anthony Atkielski wrote:Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes:You can install the X libraries and client apps on your server -- this
works fine at secure level 3 and does not require kernel configurations
changes or special daemons or anything. What it allows you to do is
then link software against the X libraries and then redirect the
display to your workstations X server. This meets your criteria and
can be handy for certain things. Your apps still run in userland only
and there is no HW touching stuff. You are not running the X Server on
your FBSD Server machine.
I'll consider it, although it still sounds complicated.
What do I gain from X that I don't already have with remote terminal
sessions like those created with SecureCRT? I know it looks pretty, but
what server-related things can I do with X that I cannot do with
ordinary terminals? I'm not aware of anything right now; it seems that
everything can be done from a command line (thank goodness--working with
Windows is a nightmare precisely _because_ so many things cannot be done
from a command line).
I run an XLoad app on every server with the display on my desktop (set to
update once a minute. It lets me keep an eye on the general health of the
servers during the day. Asside from that I haven't found a truely useful GUI
app for servers.
I don't know if this counts at all (especially since it's not FBSD), and I'm loathe to say positive things about NetWare, but I remember reading their "Snakes" screensaver was actually a load meter...the bigger the load on the server, the longer the tales on the snakes and the faster they moved on the screen.
-Bart
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