Package: x2gothinclient Severity: wishlist On Mi 26 Jun 2013 18:02:20 CEST Stephan Wagner wrote: > We use the 'hostname' to distinguish the xorg.conf's for different thin > clients. The attached init-script 'x2gohostname' replaces the default > 'hostname' with the ethernet address of the network device eth0. Colons are > replaced by dashes. Xorg will search the xorg.conf. file in the > directory /usr/etc/X11/, which correspond to > /opt/x2gothinclient/chroot/usr/etc/X11/ in the PXE-boot environment. > > The init-script goes to /opt/x2gothinclient/chroot/etc/init.d/. Enter the > chroot-environment executing 'x2gothinclient_shell'. 'update-rc.d > x2gohostname > defaults' will generate the symlinks for the different run-levels. > > Hope this helps someone, Stephan Can you please re-send this mail to submit@bugs.x2go.org and put the below lines as first lines of the mail body:?: """ Package: x2gothinclient Severity: wishlist """ My suggestion would be to improve this script a little further. From Debian Edu I know that it is rather easy to retrieve the hostname from DNS. Like this: MAC -> DHCP -> retrieve IP -> DNS -> set FQDN (revDNS) as hostname If this fails, MAC as hostname is a fallback that is good enough. Thanks+Greets, Mike -- __________________________________________________ Dr. Stephan Wagner ITos GmbH Bitzi-Bendel 2555 9642 Ebnat-Kappel Tel: +41 (0)71 990 05 94 mailto:swagner@itos-gmbh.com http://www.itos-gmbh.com --------------------------------------------------