Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> I'm not sure I understand, but you seem to be suggesting a way by >> which I could use a console window in X. As a base case, I have to >> support somebody connecting with a vt100 and a 9600 baud modem. This >> solution needs to be completely independent of X. > > ..yup, and I was thinking of the various ttys, on which again you offer > a shell menu to choose from, instead of the usual shell prompt, any tty > (except mingetty or fgetty) should do this for you, a few quick ideas: > arnt@a45:~ $ apt-cache search tty |grep tty > [...] Okay, so what you're talking about now has nothing to do with sdm-terminal, and is just a script run when users log in to the director, which will give the user a menu and then shunt them off through ssh or some other means to one of the participating hosts. I wouldn't bother with the menu, though, because that defeats the 'load-balacing' part of it (unless I put the latest load figures in the menu and let the user choose). This solution requires login access to the director host. Not necessarily a show-stopper, but it's a drawback. Thanks for your input, Drew. -- Drew Leske :: Systems Group/Unix, Computing Services, University of Victoria dleske@xxxxxxx / +1250 472 5055 (office) / +1250 588 4311 (cel)
