Installing LTSP on Mandrake

For a very smooth ltsp installation on Mandrake 10.1, follow these few steps:

Dependencies

To make sure you have all needed software installed, run this command as root and have the installation disks ready for use:

urpmi dhcp-server dhcp-client dhcp-common nfs-utils-clients nfs-utils tftp tftp-server portmap xorg-x11-xfs

Previous Mandrake versions may have slightly different package names.

Fixing tftpd

After urpmi is done installing packages, do the only critical needed correction for a smooth working ltsp server (Known Mandrake versions with this problem 9, 9.1, 9.2, 10.0 and 10.1):

Edit this file:

/etc/xinetd.d/tftp

One of it's lines is this text:

   server_args      = -s /var/tftpboot

Comment it and put the correct line below:

#   server_args      = -s /var/tftpboot
   server_args      = -s /tftpboot

Save the file and restart xinetd:

service xinetd restart

And keep reading the installation instructions heh

Fixing syslogd

The second correction (But not critical) is making syslog get messages from the temrinals, it's done by opening this file:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog

Find these two lines:

        SYSLOGD_OPTIONS="-m 0"
        KLOGD="-2"

Comment them and create new ones that includes -r and -c 3 respectively

#        SYSLOGD_OPTIONS="-m 0"
#        KLOGD="-2"
        SYSLOGD_OPTIONS="-m 0 -r"
        KLOGD="-c 3 -2"

Save the file, restart syslogd:

service syslog restart

Fixing xfs

xfs is configured for localhost. It must be changed to allow network use

Edit this file:

/etc/init.d/xfs

and at the line that says :

daemon --check xfs xfs -port -1 -daemn -droppiv -user xfs

change that -1 to 7100

-- CarlosUrbieta - 04 Jan 2005

Sound (KDE + Nasd)

Please follow this link MdkSound

-- MohammedArafa - 18 Apr 2005

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More on Fixing syslogd

-- BobC - 18 May 2005

I have ltsp-4.1 setup on Mandrake 10.1. To have syslog receive messages from my workstations I followed the suggestions given above re the /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog file. For some reason this did not work for me. Recently I found making these changes in a second file, /etc/sysconfig/syslog, was also required. (as suggested in http://www.mail-archive.com/ltsp-discuss%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg20207.html). "For redhat and mdk (and possibly others), edit /etc/sysconfig/syslog and add '-r' to the SYSLOGD_OPTIONS variable.". My server now gets messages from the workstations which I find in the /var/log directory.