---- David Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've taken a look into the email in question, and can answer some > questions. I in no way am affiliated with canonical, though I do work > within the ed/ubuntu community. Firstly, Scott mentions not using > 8.04, clearly you should upgrade as that will solve 50% of your > issues... the other issues are all valid, and I guess the problem is > one of communication between developers and end users. Lets address > the issues seperately: > > - The gnome lingering process problem > > Agreed.. this is a heavy issue that is a pain in the behind, but it is > not LTSP centric... the fault lies with gnome. Right now the > workaround is a watchdog script, which seems to work ok, but is by no > means a fix... This needs to be tackled from the gnome side... Right > now the solution is in monitoring and ending misbehaving processes > through the script or by hand via pkill -u or killall. It makes sense > to clean all processes at least 1 time per day... consider it > maintenance. > > - tcm (thin client manager) > > Indeed this no longer exists, and I believe it has been discussed > about here before on various occasions. Italc has replaced thin client > manager as the software that should be run to control thin clients > from a centralised location. The new documentation reflects this (new > in intrepid ibex), and I agree it was confusing, but a quick jump to a > channel of importance (#ltsp primarily, but also #edubuntu) will give > you the answers you need. Or a search in google. To install it is > apt-get install italc-client >
Is it just the docs that have been fixed for 8.10? As far as I can tell italc was broken on 8.04 and I needed to remove it. This is something that should be backported to the Long Term Support version. Thin Client Manager currently locks up on 8.04 as well. > - port forwarding > > The reason this is not built in is because no one knows how the > network structure looks like at a particular location. There could be > many different setups, but the documentation tells you how to easily > do this in the most common way (this has been in documentation for a > while now): > Agreed. I have a separate IPcop box for content filtering, port forwarding, intrusion detection, etc. > - lts.conf file > > This is where LTSP gets complex, and its the same across ALL > distributions... If you don't know how to create a file, then it is > not recommended you touch a lts.conf file. Increasingly, reliance on > this file has been diminished to the point that in MOST setups the > lts.conf file is not really required. But if it is, a quick read > through the documentation will show you an example file and where it > should go. > I've got a couple of 3 year old Dell workstations that need their video explicitly set in lts.conf I have to set printer servers in lts.conf. I'm still using lts.conf to do my load balancing. It would be great if I didn't have to edit this file, but I don't see it going away any time soon. And the skeleton file that tells you to read the documentation points to a documentation file that doesn't exist. Instead you get to search through the ubuntu website to find the parameters and examples. Luis -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
