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...e machines (A, B and C). Of course, all three are on different LANs. However, I have never done anything like this before, so I wonder what is the best method of creating such a setup? One of my ideas was to make some script on A which would connect to B once every 15 minutes or so, look for a flagfile, and if present, initiate connection with C directly or through B if necessary. That means, if I want access from C to A, I ssh from C to B and create a flagfile, wait 15 minutes or so, and a rdesktop (or vnc or other) appears on my laptop. In theory. Or is there some other XP-tool that might...

Can someone address the boot once option. Is it to hard for syslinux to write a flag file to file system or the blank space after the mbr? .conf bootonce Lable /boot/flagfile or .conf bootonce Lable1 /boot/flagfileLable1 bootonce Lable2 /boot/flagFileLable2 bootonce Lable2 /boot/flagFileLable2 skip the default option if the flag file is 0 size. Write something to the flag file. In my case I have no control over the remote box at boot time. I h...

As far as I can tell, the "replace" parameter is all or nothing. What I am looking for is something like the exec/onlyif parameter that I can use to conditionally replace a file. Any thoughts ? “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) -- You received this