[K12OSN] K12LTSP & Workstation Sound

[Huck]

or get the 'esd' guys to look for the file elsewhere?? =)

--Huck

Eric Harrison wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 11:39 -0600, Angus Carr wrote:
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>>Eric Harrison wrote:
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>>>Thanks for the info Gideon... I'm already working on packaging it ;-)
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>>>I'm thinking that a cron job that checks for /tmp/.esd/socket and
>>>creates
>>>it if it does not exist would be the least hackish approach.
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>>>I can add a post-install script to the ltsp-sound package that checks
>>>for
>>>the /usr/lib/libesd.so.1 symlink. These two additions should do the
>>>trick.
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>>>-Eric
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>>Instead of a cron job, why not put it into /etc/rc.local or something 
>>like that. It could run on boot, right after the process that clears 
>>/tmp. For that matter, it could run as part of the process which clears 
>>/tmp. I'm sure that's just a shell script anyway.
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>>Angus Carr.
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>From rom a packaging perspective, it is bad to add things to /etc/rc.local
>(packaging should avoid touching existing files).
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>tmpwatch runs daily as a cron job, so at the very minimum the check
>for /tmp/.esd would have to run once a day. We need to make the 
>assumption that folks do not boot their servers every day ;-)
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>Everything in /tmp is temporary, it is not unreasonable for an
>admin to just nuke /tmp/. We need to account for this possibility.
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>So my thinking is that an hourly cron job would be best.
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>-Eric
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