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Can I share a common /tmp
across servers? A bizarre question, isn't it? I'm dabbling with a Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) deployment where we have a main server which creates desktop sessions for X Windows desktop machines via the XDMCP protocol. It's running a Mandriva release. In an effort to run newer applications and to provide a way to test newer applications, different compile options and to distribute the load of various applications to different machines, I have deployed another machine running gentoo. I've mirrored the account information for all user accounts from the Mandriva machine to the Gentoo machine. The /home directory of the Mandriva machine is mounted as /home on the Gentoo box. I've been able to make ssh calls to the gentoo box from Mandriva desktop icons which launch applications back directly to the thin client's desktop using something like this: echo $DISPLAY > ~/.DISPLAY ; ssh dhcp177 "/usr/local/bin/setx;/usr/bin/thunderbird"Here is the setx program referenced above: #!/bin/bashBasically, this program is setting up the .Xauthority and the current $DISPLAY information. What seems to be happening is that applications which interact with Gnome preferences want to be able to write all their preferences to sockets which are created by default in the /tmp directory. I'd like to know why these files aren't created in $HOME/tmp/ instead of the global /tmp directory I don't know. If I could change this I wouldn't see the need for mounting /tmp across machines. I've heard that gconfd inter-relates with orbit and some dbus technology. And I've seen that these have options for tcp sockets instead of file sockets. But even if I could share gconfd across multiple servers, wouldn't I have problems with different clients which have been compiled against different versions of Gnome? If I cannot figure this one out, I'll have to reconfigure the gentoo box with the -gnome flag so applications like Thunderbird, and Firefox don't interfere with the normal gnome applications on the Mandriva box. Thanks for listening! -Joe Baker --
Network Administrator NEL Frequency Controls, Inc. |