[Libreoffice] Setting up a non-intrusive build cluster

[Jonathan Aquilina]

On 24/11/2011 00:43, Marc-Andre' Laverdie`re wrote:
> Quick question...
>
> Is GDM the default/standard graphical login in linux distros? If so, I
> think that this could be good:
> http://library.gnome.org/admin/gdm/stable/configuration.html.en
>
> Marc-Andre' LAVERDIE`RE
> "Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and
> complete,
> not lacking anything." -James 1:4
> http://asimplediscipleslife.blogspot.com/
> mlaverd.theunixplace.com <http://mlaverd.theunixplace.com>
>
>
>
Morning Marc-Andre

GDM is the standard for gnome. Kde has its own called KDM.

>
> 2011/11/23 Marc-Andre' Laverdie`re <marcandre.laverdiere at gmail.com
> <mailto:marcandre.laverdiere at gmail.com>>
>
>     I played with the utmp stuff, and it records the shells only, not
>     the interactive sessions...
>
>     Any method other than the ps trick? (which may break of process
>     names changes...)
>
>
>     Marc-Andre' LAVERDIE`RE
>     "Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and
>     complete,
>     not lacking anything." -James 1:4
>     http://asimplediscipleslife.blogspot.com/
>     mlaverd.theunixplace.com <http://mlaverd.theunixplace.com>
>
>
>
>
>     2011/11/23 Marc-Andre' Laverdie`re <marcandre.laverdiere at gmail.com
>     <mailto:marcandre.laverdiere at gmail.com>>
>
>         Working on that... it looks simple, but the code isn't giving
>         me what I expected...
>         /me grumbles looking at unknown APIs...
>
>
>         Marc-Andre' LAVERDIE`RE
>         "Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature
>         and complete,
>         not lacking anything." -James 1:4
>         http://asimplediscipleslife.blogspot.com/
>         mlaverd.theunixplace.com <http://mlaverd.theunixplace.com>
>
>
>
>
>         On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Lionel Elie Mamane
>         <lionel at mamane.lu <mailto:lionel at mamane.lu>> wrote:
>
>             On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:50:52AM +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:
>             > On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 16:15 -0500, Marc-Andre'
>             Laverdie`re wrote:
>
>             >> I am convincing some powers-that-be that having a build
>             farm would
>             >> be good, and they are starting to listen. This would
>             really help me
>             >> write patches for LO, as my poor computer is having
>             impossibly long
>             >> compile cycles.
>
>             >> There is a bunch of somewhat old Linux workstations
>             that could
>             >> contribute to it. The concern is mostly that it should
>             be so that the
>             >> systems should not accept jobs when users are logged
>             in, as it may
>             >> interfere with whatever work it is that they are doing.
>
>             Maybe more interesting than "nobody logged on" would be
>             "system load
>             very low", e.g. "load <= 0.1*(number of cores)", possibly
>             combined
>             with "free memory + memory used for cache >= threshold".
>
>             > I'm sure they'd accept a patch to add a config option to
>             use some
>             > system heuristic before accepting a job. Of course,
>             reliably detecting a
>             > login session is prolly quite fun in itself ;-) ps ax | grep
>             > gnome-session | kdeinit or something ?
>
>             Nah:
>
>             #include <utmpx.h>
>
>             struct utmpx *getutxent(void);
>             struct utmpx *getutxid(const struct utmpx *);
>             struct utmpx *getutxline(const struct utmpx *);
>             struct utmpx *pututxline(const struct utmpx *);
>             void setutxent(void);
>             void endutxent(void);
>
>             is the POSIX/SUS interface to do that. Or just run
>             "/usr/bin/who -q"
>             :)
>
>             --
>             Lionel
>
>
>
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Regards

Jonathan Aquilina

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