On Friday 27 March 2009 18:04:11 Gerry Reno wrote:
Jesse Keating wrote:
I'm not concerned about it either. I don't run X directly on my servers, so the whole VM thing is a little bit of hogwash to me. ssh exported X works just fine for when I need something graphical, otherwise it's CLI.
What exactly is your use case that you need a local functioning X on all these systems in your data center and virtual hosts?
X servers are everywhere these days. Even on some of our servers and VM's. We have servers hosting test VM's for users and we have X running so that we can bring up the graphical virtualization tools so we can run the VM's console and see what is happening with a particular users VM X server.
I have to agree with Jesse on this. It sounds like you are getting a lot more exercise than a SysAdmin should. ;-)
I am surprised that you have so many systems on which this is apparently a problem and yet you do not do provisioning where a simple config change would resolve it. Even without provisioning for installs, any config provisioning would easily handle this.
I am also a SysAdmin, and I do (very rarely) use this key combination, but certainly not often enough to see this as a big deal. There are soooo many ways around this change and around the need for the key combination in the first place.
I wish you luck in your upstream fight.