Re: GEP 3 - Remote activation in bonobo-activation

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 19:11, Seth Nickell wrote:
> 2.2 Daemon support
> For this to work, support must be added in some way to the current
> bonobo-activation architecture to support the nomenclature and protocol
> for the remote activation.
> 
> There are several ways this can be fixed: 
>         * Opening an SSH session to the machine holding the component to
>           be activated, and start the local-per-user bonobo-activation
>           daemon on that machine, so that it activates the component. 
>         * Create a system-wide daemon that listens on a well known port
>           for requests from bonobo-activation clients on other machines.
> 
> 'Scuse my ignorance, but isn't that what xinetd/inetd and company are
> for?
> 
yes, I forgot to add that. The idea is to be a 'normal' server, which is
just started via inetd/xinetd, with its entry in /etc/services.

I'll add it to the GEP.

cheers