Today, with prelink having been run aptitude install prelink /usr/sbin/prelink -avmR
With the fixes applied to a template user from here http://www.zolved.com/synapse/view_content/28209/How_to_make_OpenOffice_run_faster_in_Ubuntu With watchdog running wget http://www.morokeni.ch/edubuntu/gnome-watchdog_0.9.2_i386.deb dpkg -i gnome-watchdog_0.9.2_i386.deb (and aptitude install gtkdialog) and after updating the profiles of all users with the script below, some of the kids actually were heard to say, "this is fast!" :-) Yeah, so, hate to reply to myself, but my scripts were definitely wrong. With about 400 users on an ldap authenticating samba/nfs sharing server, we manage templating a user as follows: I have two scripts to accomplish this more copytemplateuser.sh #!/bin/bash # settings BASE_HOME_DIR=/home/students TEMPLATE_FILE=/home/students/template/template.tar.gz BASE_TEMPLATE_DIR=/home/students/template cd ${BASE_TEMPLATE_DIR} tar -cvzf template.tar.gz * .[a-zA-Z0-9]* cd ${BASE_HOME_DIR} for USER in `ls` do echo 'Extracting for user:' ${USER} cd ${BASE_HOME_DIR}/${USER} tar -zxvf ${TEMPLATE_FILE} chown -fR ${USER}:Domain\ Users * .[^.]* done and, because I have not conveniently determined a way to update permissions and ownerships of hidden files within the user's directory as well as well as of the users' directories themselves, I run this next more permissionchangedirectory.sh #!/bin/bash # settings BASE_HOME_DIR=/home/students cd ${BASE_HOME_DIR} for USER in `ls` do chown ${USER}:Domain\ Users ${USER} done Not pretty, but it does work. I then extract the template.tar.gz file in /etc/skel of our 7.10 Edubuntu server for new users. --scott -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
