[LUAU] K12LTSP and VNC

[Byron Kapali]

Mahalo Tom for your reply.  Question: How do I "tell cron to yum -y
upgrade every night"?  What program do I use to edit the cron?

Byron

Tom Gordon wrote:

>Byron Kapali wrote:
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>>Aloha All,
>>Im an new to the K12LTSP revolution but I am very familiar with VNC. 
>>I setup a mini K12LTSP lab in my library  with thin clients running
>>out of eth1 and my internet connection out of eth0.  The problem I am
>>having is that I have to run down to the library to everytime I want
>>to do updates or just modify a few things on the K12LTSP server.  Is
>>there a way to setup VNC server on K12LTSP such that I can login from
>>my room and not have to run down to the library?  I can ping server's
>>eth0 port so I'm assuming that I can establish a  VNC connection.  Any
>>suggestions?
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>>Byron Kapali
>>Hilo High School
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>log in as root from the thin client - or, from any location you have
>decent bandwidth to the server - or just ssh to the box.  as far as
>updates alone - just tell cron to yum -y upgrade every night and you'll
>get a report in your mail if the root's mail alias is set up right.
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>VNC is ok, but - i'm not sure - if they support display managers and
>that would mean the console has to be logged in all the time and would
>be a complete waste of resources.
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