how do you get something to run when a user logs on?

[Uwe Geercken]

David,

I agree. I am doing classroom seessions once a week in our local  
school for about a year now and tend to forget things when I don't  
need them regularly. my server runs well so I haven't touch him for a  
while.

I have surfed the net to collect little bits on how to tweak ltsp or  
how to get around problems. it would be nice to have this all  
documented and a real good overview of ltsp as you indicated.

if you and others do that, I would volunteer to help and to translate  
to german. to have things in one place would be really helpful.

rgds,

uwe


Quoting David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com>:

> In reality, there has been no move away from the  standard practices
> you describe below. The difference is that we often forget that the
> /etc/profile and .../PostLogin are really being read from the user's
> chroot (/opt/ltsp/<name-of-chroot>/etc/profile) and that these then
> need to be rebuilt using the ltsp-update-image command....
>
> It would be wonderful for more documentation on all this stuff, there
> is much that gets taken for granted by ltsp experts but just leaves
> most newbies clueless... LTSP is not so logical in what it does until
> you understand the entire framework, and I don't believe that even
> THAT isn't documented anywhere... I've volunteered to re/write some of
> edubuntu classroom handbook by writing this email of course... if
> anyone wants to join in, we should coordinate.... I've started by
> ripping restructuring so that it becomes an LTSP handbook and not a
> edubuntu handbook since most LTSP is the same, and only certain
> elements are ubuntu specific (btw.... someone should really tell the
> canonical corps to get rid of the edubuntu brand name as it does
> nothing now but create confusion.) It doesn't exist as a distro as do
> xubuntu and geubuntu and kubuntu... it needs to be restructured
> somehow cause I bet its just confusing the hell out of people... I
> would love for someone that works with canonical to explain to me,
> what edubuntu means to them :-) and please dont say: Its the 2nd CD
> with all the educactional software.)
>
> David
>
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:33 AM, john <lists.john at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi oli,
>>
>> Thanks again for this approach. Is there a story behind the move away
>> from using /etc/profile and /etc/gdm/PostLogin? I'd be interested in
>> hearing it.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> John
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>> hi,
>>> On Do, 2008-08-28 at 08:03 -0700, john wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I was wondering where I can put scripts that I want to run when a user
>>>> logs on to a thin client. I used to put them in /etc/profile but that
>>>> doesn't seem to work under Hardy. It seems like LDM is somehow
>>>> by-passing the stuff I put there. Can someone help me out?
>>> ldm is executing /etc/X11/Xsession by default ... (like gdm or kdm do)
>>> one option would be to put stuff into /etc/X11/Xsession.d, another is to
>>> use the xdg autostart mechanism in /etc/xdg/autostart
>>>
>>> ciao
>>>        oli
>>>
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