1.2. The Architecture of the Laddie Appliance

This book's sample appliance is an alarm system that uses the input pins on a parallel port for input from the alarm sensors. The UIs include web, command line, LCD with a keypad, framebuffer with IR remote control, and SNMP.

The daemons on our appliance include the alarm system daemon and one to respond to appliance events. We chose not to implement all of the daemons shown in Figure 1-2 so that we could focus on describing how to build and secure daemons in general.

Of course, our sample appliance includes ladd (the defining application), an event handler, and a utility to make common Linux configuration files visible using a protocol common to all the UIs.

Figure 1-3 shows the architecture of the Laddie ...

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