Subject: Bug#250: ultiple xorg.conf's in x2go TCE

From: Stephan Wagner <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 22:03:44 +0200

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 [email-masked] 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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