[Gpe-list] running gpesyncd on Nokia N800

[Graham Cobb]

On Tuesday 05 June 2007 05:22, Florian Boor wrote:
> Thomas Sebastian wrote:
> > i'm pretty new with my N800, but i got gpesyncd running :-)
> > But now my question, how can i make it starting on boot?
> > cause i don't always open it via x-terminal.
>
> I'm not sure if current Maemo images allow application packages to install
> init scripts, so that would be something to try. Of course you could
> install the dropbear package and set up public key authentication which is
> better for security reasons anyway. If you use ssh for sync access you do
> not need to run the daemon yourself.

Packages can install init scripts.  Do people think we should do that for 
gpesyncd?  We could ship an init script which did nothing by default but 
which could be configured by the user to automatically start gpesyncd.

Personally I use ssh (I use the real ssh, not dropbear) and configure the GPE 
plugin to use ssh access to run gpesyncd, using a key to automatically log 
in.  That way I am relying on the security of ssh instead of the 
IP-address-based access control in gpesyncd.

Graham