Re: [Libreoffice] Setting up a non-intrusive build cluster

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-André LAVERDIÈRE
"Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete,
not lacking anything." -James 1:4
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2011/11/23 Marc-André Laverdière <marcandre.laverdiere@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-André LAVERDIÈRE
> "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
>
>
>
>
> 2011/11/23 Marc-André Laverdière <marcandre.laverdiere@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-André LAVERDIÈRE
> > "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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel@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-André Laverdière 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