Re: [Drbl-user] Using drbl-doit for remote messaging
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Re: [Drbl-user] Using drbl-doit for remote messaging
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From: Steven S. <st...@nc...> - 2009-10-23 13:15:30
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Hi Tim, Maybe you can email me and then I can put it on http://drbl.sourceforge.net/related_article/ Or if you have some website, we can link it, too. Thanks in advance. Regards, Steven. Tim Shelley wrote: > Hi Steven, > > Both DRBL Servers are running the latest version of DRBL. > > I have found that my issue is nothing to do with DRBL. It's to do with > how Jaunty and Hardy login a user differently. In Jaunty when a user > logs in a script is run to add the user to xhost as > SI:localuser:<username> whereas Hardy does not do this. > > The precise different under Jaunty is in the /etc/X11/Session.d. There > is a file called 60x11-common_localhost which gets sourced by Xsession > and somehow run (I'm still learning the nuts and bolts of Ubuntu :) ) > when someone logs in. > > I guess on Hardy I could just use the copy of the same file. For any > future installation of DRBL I think we'll be using Jaunty anyway. > > BTW although my remote messaging script is not perfect (or the > prettiest :) ) is there a place I can publish it along with > instructions to give access to it for the DRBL Community? > > Regards, > > Tim. > > > Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:43:43 +0800 > > From: st...@nc... > > To: tim...@ho... > > CC: drb...@li... > > Subject: Re: [Drbl-user] Using drbl-doit for remote messaging > > > > Hi Tim, > > OK. > > BTW, are you using the same DRBL version on your hardy and jaunty > machines? > > > > Steven. > > > > Tim Shelley wrote: > > > Hi Steven, > > > > > > Sorry, when I said 'live' server I meant the actual server we use > from > > > day to day, not the DRBL Live. > > > > > > So I have a DRBL Server running on Hardy and another running on > Jaunty - > > > and my script runs correctly on the Jaunty DRBL Server, but not under > > > Hardy. I think it may be to do with the flavour of Ubuntu. When I > look > > > at a stand-alone machine with Jaunty installed it also has > > > SI:localuser:<username>. > > > > > > I'm just trying to figure out how to make it work on the Hardy DRBL > > > Server... > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Tim. > > > > > > Steven Shiau wrote: > > >> DRBL live is based on Debian lenny, maybe that's why it's different > > >> from your Ubuntu jaunty? > > >> > > >> Steven. > > >> > > >> Tim Shelley wrote: > > >>> Hi all, > > >>> > > >>> Thanks to the responses from my other email thread: "Is there a way > > >>> to display a message on the clients?2" I've been able to create a > > >>> script to display a message on the DRBL clients. I have one more > > >>> hurdle to cross though :) > > >>> > > >>> I set up a test DRBL Server (rather than use the live Server). I > > >>> installed Jaunty and got DRBL up and running. My script worked fine > > >>> on this setup, but when I moved to the live server I got the > 'cannot > > >>> open display error' with regards to the display. > > >>> > > >>> The live server is Hardy and the only difference I can see at the > > >>> moment is the xhost setup. > > >>> > > >>> On the test DRBL client (using the Jaunty DRBL server) typing in > > >>> xhost in a terminal I see the following entry: > > >>> > > >>> SI:localuser:<username> > > >>> > > >>> But on the live DRBL client (using the Hardy DRBL Server) running > > >>> xhost shows no entries. If I do xhost +SI:localuser:<username> > on the > > >>> client then the script is able to display the message. I'm now > > >>> wondering why the live DRBL client does not have an entry. > > >>> > > >>> I cannot remember doing anything different on the Jaunty DRBL > server > > >>> to the Hardy DRBL server. Is this because there is a difference > > >>> bet ween how Hardy and Jaunty works/installs itself or have I > missed > > >>> something? > > >>> > > >>> Thanks in advance. > > >>> > > >>> Regards, > > >>> > > >>> Tim. > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >>> Have more than one Hotmail account? Link them together to easily > > >>> access both. <http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/167688463/direct/01/> > > >>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >>> > > >>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >>> > > >>> Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA > > >>> is the only developer event you need to attend this year. > Jumpstart your > > >>> developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market > and > > >>> stay ahead of the curve. 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