nbdrootd(8)

nbdrootd8

Serve out ltsp images created with ltsp-update-image(8)

Usage

nbdrootd

Overview

nbdrootd will serve out LTSP images created with ltsp-update-image(8) which are filesystem images, and compressed with mksquashfs(8). The nbdrootd(8) program is a simple shell script wrapper for nbd-server(1) program, and it is usually run from an inetd(8) instance.

Examples

Add the following line to /etc/inetd.conf(5):

2000 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/nbdrootd /opt/ltsp/images/i386.img

Note that the ltsp-update-image(8) program will do this for you automatically.

Releases

Unchanged in 6 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

  1. 5.0–10

Availability

nbdrootd is part of ltsp package and the latest versions are available in source form from https://launchpad.net/products/ltsp (link to URL https://launchpad.net/products/ltsp) .

Author

copyright 2007 Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]>, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

From ltsp-server 5.18.12-3 in Debian 10 (Buster). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.