Re: Distribution help needed for nanny

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Roberto Majadas
<roberto majadas openshine com> wrote:
> Hi Desktop-devel  people :
>
> We want to support more distributions in nanny project [1] . And we need
> help with fedora/redhat and opensuse/suse distributions. We only need
> init-scripts to start the nanny daemon on this distributions. Obiously other
> distributions are welcome too :) . We support at the moment ubuntu/debian
> and mandriva.
>
> Are there any developer that can help us with this init-scripts ? If you
> want to help us, you only need drop your init-script here ;) [2]
>

Hey, when I was looking at nanny for Fedora a while ago [1] I noticed
a few more things that might need adjustment per OS:

1) The daemon assumes that it can control login by editing
/etc/pam.d/gdm (not true on Fedora, where we have a bunch of other pam
files that are used by gdm).

2) The UI code doesn't work with GTK+ 2.20, due to the widget
name/buildable name change in GTK+. It seems you just fixed that in
git, though.

3) nanny uses iptables (it took a while to figure out why nothing was
happening when I  tried nanny first - I had iptables turned off).
There should probably be some kind of runtime check for iptables, in
addition to a dependency in the init script. What about ip6tables, btw
?

4) the daemon uses really yucky process-name matching to find existing
sessions, so if your session manager is not called x-session-manager
or gnome-session, you get out of jail free...

Matthias


[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553210