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.<hostname> 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

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