Re: [K12OSN] xdm's Chooser feature

[Andy Rabagliati <andyr wizzy com>]

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Andrew Fournier wrote:

> I have only played with this a little, but won't <X -indirect> (rather
> than <x -query>) get you a choice of servers? 

This is the patch I apply to get some degree of redundancy in
my client startups. Problem ? reboot the client.

It allows you to list preferred XDM_SERVER s and XFS_SERVER s
in the lts.conf file.

Cheers,  Andy!

--- /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/rc.local	2002-07-21 04:09:33.000000000 +0200
+++ /tmp/rc.local	2003-06-10 16:30:57.000000000 +0200
@@ -388,6 +388,15 @@
 
     XDM_SERVER=`get_cfg XDM_SERVER ${DEFAULT_SERVER}`
 
+    for i in $XDM_SERVER
+    do
+	if ping -c 1 $i
+	then
+	    XDM_SERVER=$i
+	    break
+	fi
+    done
+
     case "${XSERVER}" in
 
         XF86_*)  XBINARY="${XSERVER}"
@@ -423,9 +432,9 @@
     fi
 
     if [ -w /proc/progress ]; then
-        echo "/usr/X11R6/bin/${XBINARY} ${XOPTS} ${ACC_CTRL} -query ${XDM_SERVER} >/dev/tty3 2>&1" >/tmp/start_ws
+        echo "/usr/X11R6/bin/${XBINARY} ${XOPTS} ${ACC_CTRL} -indirect ${XDM_SERVER} >/dev/tty3 2>&1" >/tmp/start_ws
     else
-        echo "/usr/X11R6/bin/${XBINARY} ${XOPTS} ${ACC_CTRL} -query ${XDM_SERVER}" >/tmp/start_ws
+        echo "/usr/X11R6/bin/${XBINARY} ${XOPTS} ${ACC_CTRL} -indirect ${XDM_SERVER}" >/tmp/start_ws
     fi
 
     chmod 0755 /tmp/start_ws
--- /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/rc.setupx	2001-12-01 02:45:11.000000000 +0200
+++ /tmp/rc.setupx	2003-06-10 16:28:38.000000000 +0200
@@ -81,9 +81,16 @@
 
 if [ "${USE_XFS}" = "Y" ]; then
     XFS_SERVER=`get_cfg XFS_SERVER ${DEFAULT_SERVER}`
-    cat <<-EOF >>${XF86CONFIG}
+cat <<-EOF >>${XF86CONFIG}
 Section "Files"
-        FontPath   "tcp/${XFS_SERVER}:7100"
+EOF
+echo -n FontPath   \" >>${XF86CONFIG}
+for f in $XFS_SERVER
+do
+	echo -n tcp/${f}:7100, >>${XF86CONFIG}
+done
+echo \" >>${XF86CONFIG}
+cat <<-EOF >>${XF86CONFIG}
 EndSection
 EOF
 else