[K12OSN] K12LTSP & Workstation Sound

[Angus Carr]

Eric Harrison wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 12:00 -0500, Gideon Romm wrote:
>  
>
>>:)  Shawn, you're funny.  I couldn't live without my streaming mp3s
>>during the day...
>>
>>You should be aware of one thing that isn't in my hpwto:  The /tmp
>>directory gets cleared periodically, so you will find that /tmp/.esd
>>directory will get removed.  You should compensate for this, either
>>manually or with some appropriate script that recreates the directory
>>if it is not present.  Annoying, but hey, workarounds always are...
>>
>>:)
>>
>>Enjoy!
>>
>>-Gideon
>>    
>>
>
>Thanks for the info Gideon... I'm already working on packaging it ;-)
>
>I'm thinking that a cron job that checks for /tmp/.esd/socket and
>creates
>it if it does not exist would be the least hackish approach.
>
>I can add a post-install script to the ltsp-sound package that checks
>for
>the /usr/lib/libesd.so.1 symlink. These two additions should do the
>trick.
>
>-Eric
>
>
>  
>
>>On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 11:13, Shawn Powers wrote: 
>>    
>>
>>>Shawn Powers wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>above would fix flash/sound/esd for the server only, not for the clients 
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Holy Beans!!!  I was WAAAYYYY off.  That solution worked PERFECTLY.  I 
>>>have sound with flash on my thin clients.
>>>
>>>I'm going to go do a little dance.
>>>
>>>A little happy dance.
>>>
>>>w00h00!!!
>>>
>>>Gideon is my hero for the day.  :)
>>>
>>>Thank you SOOO much,
>>>-Shawn
>>>      
>>>
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Instead of a cron job, why not put it into /etc/rc.local or something 
like that. It could run on boot, right after the process that clears 
/tmp. For that matter, it could run as part of the process which clears 
/tmp. I'm sure that's just a shell script anyway.

Angus Carr.