Okay, I added the local-settings.js. Firefox launches correctly, but it still
isn't pulling the correct settings. It is pulling user preferences from
/home/username/.mozilla/firefox/user.default/user.prefs. Is there a way to tell
it to override user preferences and only use the config file specified?
-----Original Message-----
From: "Donaldson Jeffrey" <[email protected]>
Sent 11/16/2011 3:49:52 PM
To: "Rippl, Steve" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Edubuntu Users Group" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Firefox caching to NFS mounted home directories killing disk IO
on file server
Thanks Steve. I'll try adding a local-settings.js with the two general
configs and seeing if that helps. Just out of curiosity, if one of your
students goes to about:config or about:cache, do they see the settings?
On 11/16/2011 01:22 PM, Rippl, Steve wrote: That does look fine. So the one
difference we have is that in /etc/firefox/prefs we put the 2 lines
pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0);
pref("general.config.filename", "firefox.cfg");
in a separate file we call local-settings.js, rather than within the
firefox.js. I'm assuming everything in that folder gets read and this
shouldn't make any difference, but it's the only difference I can see at this
point.
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Donaldson Jeffrey <[email protected]>
wrote:
I don't believe it to be a syntax issue, but here's the file before running
the byteshift on it.
On 11/16/2011 12:43 PM, Rippl, Steve wrote: That should work, we have
root:root 644 and that works. Have you tried commenting out all the javascript
in /usr/lib/firefox-7.0.1/firefox.cfg just to ensure it isn't a syntax error in
the file itself causing it to complain?
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Donaldson Jeffrey <[email protected]>
wrote:
Steve,
Thanks for the reply. I have user and group setup with nobody:nogroup and 755
permissions. Is this wrong? How do you have your permissions setup? Currently
we don't have it setup as a local app. Thanks for your help!
Jeff
On 11/16/2011 11:31 AM, Rippl, Steve wrote:
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Donaldson Jeffrey <[email protected]>
wrote:
I've been trying for a few days now to get Firefox to cache pages to /tmp
locally for all users. I updated to Firefox 7, then edited the firefox.js in
/etc/firefox/pref to include these lines -
pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0); (supposed to tell FF not to worry
about byteshift)
pref("general.config.filename", "firefox.cfg");
I then took a customized firefox.cfg file and placed it in
/usr/lib/firefox-7.0.1.
This is what we do (to lock down network settings and the like) and it works.
The only problems I can think of are permissions issues on
/usr/lib/firefox-7.0.1/firefox.cfg (can the user read it?) and whether you have
an error in the JavaScript in the .cfg file? Then again this is all run on the
server for us (no local apps), are you running Firefox as a local app?
For what it's worth, we found that many apps and even the Gnome desktop itself
didn't work that well with nfs mounted home folders for the students. We've
since moved to having real local folder on each of the LTSP server (we have
multiple load balanced) and we use csync (http://www.csync.org/)
to synchronize those with the central file server on login/logout and every 10
minutes they're logged in. Performance went up dramatically and the load on
the file server is almost nothing.
--
Steve Rippl
Technology Director
Woodland Public Schools
360 841 2730
-- Regards, Jeff Donaldson Data Services Manager Newark Charter School (302)
369-2001 ext:425 [email protected]
--
Steve Rippl
Technology Director
Woodland Public Schools
360 841 2730
-- Regards, Jeff Donaldson Data Services Manager Newark Charter School (302)
369-2001 ext:425 [email protected]
--
Steve Rippl
Technology Director
Woodland Public Schools
360 841 2730
-- Regards, Jeff Donaldson Data Services Manager Newark Charter School (302)
369-2001 ext:425 [email protected]
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