Re: [MLUG] Remote X for Bengal HOWTO

[Mark Rages <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:32:33AM -0500, Robb III, George B. wrote:
> Just a suggestion...  
> 
> But, should we have tried this on the MLUG box of power before we decide
> to run Mozilla in our Virtual X environment off of Bengal...  Or at
> least contacted a Bengal sys admin?   
> 
> It seems to me that it may hog a few more resources on Bengal than are
> available... And the last thing that MLUG needs is a campus *nix admin
> pissed...
> 
> George

George,

Two points.

1) I gave instructions for an xterm. Nobody who has tried mozilla over
   remote X will think it is a great browsing experience.  Better to use
   the browser local to the display.

2) The reason my script has to copy in the xterm binary is because it
   was inadvertently left off the Bengal Linux install.  After all,
   Emacs is installed.  Emacs is a superset of xterm. (It has three 
   different terminals built in, IIRC)

3) If the admins of Bengal need to limit resource usage per-user, Unix
   has facilities to do exactly that.  Making specific programs 
   off-limits would be a silly, indirect, ineffective way to accomplish 
   the goal.

Well, I guess that was three points.

Regards,
Mark
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