Re: [Server-devel] Centos as a base for sugar-Dextrose? and/or XSCE
More precisely CentOS tracks RHEL (Redhat enterprise linux). Fedora is experemental in that features found to be stable in Fedora can be gated into RHEL.Another aspect is hardware. For OLPC Fedora or Ubuntu is most likely to have hardware support. Politics appears to open up more hardware on Ubuntu (WiFi, Gfx).Centos with alternates should get there with some assembly required. On Jul 28, 2013 3:43 PM, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com wrote: We are mixing our channels abit here. A Sugar based desktop on CentOS is pretty unlikely. As Peter noticed, there are many dependencies necessary for a recent Sugar which are not present in CentOS. CentOS intentionally lagges fedora by several releases for stability. If someone wanted to do it badly enough, it would be possible to backport the fedora 18 GTK stack to CentSO A school server based on CentOS or Ubuntu LTS is more likely. The challenge is remaining compatible with XOs. For hardware compatibility, a XO requires recent OLPC-OS versions which are based on recent fedora version. The step necessary to make XSCE on CentOS run on _Commodity_X86_ hardware are not that great. The problem is that it would require maintain a non-XO branch in parallel with the XO compatible branch.. Anyone have the time, energy, and flame retardant skin to tackle that? :) On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Thomas Gilliard satelli...@gmail.com wrote: I am having install problems using the i386 6.4 Centos Live Cd/DVD's. Has anyone had kernel panics after install finishes and when rebooting? i7 Laptop with install on USB HD (USB3) --- would like to do Both if it is possible. But first I would like to setup a USB external HD with centos and install a schoolserver on it. As a test system. This could be booted on my system76 i7 laptop (gazelle) using a wired and wireless connection. I have a working install of os885 (11.3.1) on the XO-1.5 Adam lent me for testing. Getting a current Sugar-Desktop (Dextrose?) to run on centos would be great. The long term stability of centos is very attractive. Please contact Peter robinson about the possibilities. He did an initial try as sugar 0.88.1 on Centos as referenced below. But found that it had too many missing dependencies. Cordially Tom Gilliard Bellingham WA. #satellit_e on #schoolserver freenode IRC On 07/26/2013 06:09 PM, George Hunt wrote: If this is referring to whether XSCE will run on centos, that's a different question that whether sugar-destop will run on centos. But maybe I'm responding with insufficient information about the question. George On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: Jerry, Can you help at all here? On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Thomas Gilliard satelli...@gmail.com wrote: Adam; Peter Robinson (usually on #fedora-arm) asked me in a PM IRC session today to have you contact him: satellit_e has anything newer been done on centos sugar-desktop? http://pkgs.org/centos-6-rhel-6/epel-i386/sugar-0.88.1-1.el6.noarch.rpm.html pbrobinson no, we tried it but the dependencies are too old pbrobinson so it was decided it was more pain than it was worth satellit_e ok that was what I just found: ) pbrobinson yes, I think 0.88 would likely work and it's likely from our attempt but 0.88 is ancient so we should likely just kill it satellit_e I like the long time stability of centos too bad pbrobinson It has it's uses but unfortunately because sugar is moving quite fast long term stability and needed and wanted features tend to be mutually exclusive. RHEL-7 (and hence likely Cent-OS 7) will likely be close to supporting what we need for Sugar 1.0 so that might suffice but then I said that with RHEL-6 too satellit_e I have been playing with schoolserver DX3 and Adam wanted to know if centos might be used but Way over my head I fear pbrobinson ask adam to email me satellit_e ok pbrobinson if he wants that discussion pbrobinson presumably DX3 is dextrose? satellit_e yes satellit_e olpc pbrobinson OK, is it currently fedora based? pbrobinson (I've never used Dextrose) satellit_e I have tested it in Ubuntu and on my XO-1.5 and as a vdi in VirtualBox pbrobinson not sure what that means satellit_e http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Ubuntu#Ubuntu_12.04.2_LTS_-_Dextrose_Sugar_Live pbrobinson no, what I mean is the dextrose distro derived from Fedora or something else pbrobinson not what platforms you ran it on satellit_e looks like fedora pbrobinson OK satellit_e basically for XO-1.5 1.75 pbrobinson if he's really interested in an educated answer tell him to ping me an email satellit_e https://sugardextrose.org/projects/dextrose/wiki/Wiki satellit_e http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition -- Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @
Re: [Server-devel] DNS on XS 0.7
What DNS server are you asking to look things up for you. If the gateway works. Can you ping the IP address... (note google has many, many, this one) # ping www.google.com PING www.google.com (74.125.28.103) Check your /etc/resolv.conf file for sanity. If you add: nameserver 8.8.8.8 and retry do you get an answer. Often the gateway device has a running name server. Other times localhost is listed (127.0.0.1) which requires a running and correctly configured name server on local host. Tools like dig, host, nslookup have options to test a name server and also disclose the hosts contacted for answers. Note Well (N.B.) that recursive name servers have come under attack and what worked last week may have been restricted/ repaired to not provide recursive name lookups that you did not know you depended on. On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:00 AM, vanessa ramos da cruz v.ramosdac...@gmail.com wrote: Halo, I have a Server with XS 0.7, with an ISP (Internet service provider) and an ISP-provided DNS server. It always worked very well, but now lost the Internet access. I think the DNS is not solving the names, because i can ping the gateway, but by pinginging www.google.com i become the answer unknown host. Can some one help me? ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel -- T o m M i t c h e l l ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] buffer bloat - may be OT
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: There are some back of the envelope computations that can help with OLPC in a wireless mesh or from a server. Bandwidth is fixed. So if there are two OLPCs connecting to a server you need to divide the bandwidth by two and target a sub second send buffer allocation configuration. Watching latency can prove important because latency problems indicate that one application near or far could fill the buffers. By keeping the send buffers small a fair share access to the net can effectively be established by the system process scheduler. Receive buffers can be big, but it is better to have the system advertise a modest buffer space. Next in the talk is a mention of critical services. One of which is name services. DNS is in the critical path for almost all operations in the OLPC and XS server. Time outs for DNS lookups are many seconds so a slow lookup can keep a window from opening for many seconds. Most often overlooked is localhost (127.0.0.1). After localhost are the lookups for private networks (192.168.x.x, 172.16.x.x, 10.x.x.x). These are often allocated by DHCP for each OLPC but even these need to be resolved quickly because timeouts are long. The system will continue after the timeout but timeouts are long. The XS must be able to resolve any address it allocates via DHCP. And each OLPC must be able to lookup names for all the IP addresses it connects to. It is possible to setup a name server on the XS that is authorative or with a host res order that places hosts before dns in the /etc/host.conf file. Populating /etc/hosts with all the private name lookups is a valuable trick when establishing a class room that is not known to the world because it is hidden behind a NAT box. Also watch for another type of private networking uses the link-local address range (169.254.1.0 to 169.254.255.254). If link-local or Zero configuration networking is involved these addresses also need to be resolved promptly. It helps but is not sufficient to just use numbers. A secure shell connection (ssh me@192.168.4.24) can take fifteen seconds to connect if the lookups to three name servers fail. If both ends are quickly resolved the connection can take place in the blink of a screen refresh. It also makes sense for the XS server to run a squid proxy server. DHCP can be configured so DHCP clients get the proxy server info.The big value of a squid server is all the rich web content that sites serve up. The proxy server also places a number of critical lookups on the XS where they can be evaluated, measured and managed. IP filters can also firewall many problems. Some of this is analogous to the issues that HPC clusters like a ROCKS or Beowulf cluster encounter. Like an XS setup there is one larger system that serves as a gateway and central hub and behind it are many compute servers. These clusters like a school server can be isolated or fully connected to the internet and have the same living in isolation or full network service connected issues and problems. On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 7:32 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 09:50:57AM -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: I don't know if any traffic shaping implications will affect the school server, but in the hopes that it might, I'm copying that list as well. -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch-at-niftyegg-dot-com My lifetime goal is to be the kind of person my dogs think I am. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Server-devel] buffer bloat - may be OT
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Tom Mitchell mi...@niftyegg.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry Peter Robinson and readers ... I got the attribution wrong. -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch-at-niftyegg-dot-com My lifetime goal is to be the kind of person my dogs think I am. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Server-devel] Question on number of iptables rules
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Anna ascho...@gmail.com wrote: My test XS at home has a FQDN and is open to the outside. Therefore this is probably a pretty rare issue in XS land, but I thought I'd ask. I noticed my ambient rx/tx traffic on eth0 had gone from really low (like 0.1 to 0.7 kB/s) to hovering between 5-20 kB/s. I went through httpd's access_log and error_log and blocked a bunch of IPs that looked kinda sketchy. Chinese and Russian search engine bots, script kiddies looking for phpmyadmin, that kinda stuff. It can help to block China and Russia but the way spam and denial of service botnets work that is more limited than you might wish. Two tools denyhosts and PortSentry come to mind. They will deal with many blunt script attacks that come from anyplace on the globe even Iceland ;-) With a system live on the internet it is often valuable to block everything first and then open exactly what you need for exactly those that need it. The number of rules by itself almost does not matter. Sometimes the order of rules matters more. For example you can drop/block all connections to telnet and many other port services in a very early rule and never need to test your long list of IP address blocks. Log files always need to be watched. -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch-at-niftyegg-dot-com My lifetime goal is to be the kind of person my dogs think I am. ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] IP Address Pools for XOs, known clients, and unknown clients on XS 0.6
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Anna ascho...@gmail.com wrote: I like to leave the AP open on my test XS 0.6 at home, but ran into an issue with that yesterday. I noticed the lights on my router blinking like crazy, so I did a live tail on the squid access log to see what was going on. tail -f /var/log/squid/access.log And oh, my goodness. Leaving an access point open is getting more and more questionable. Because of the tangle of issues that can surface it does pay to setup basic encryption and passwords. You proxy logs will help you a lot if there are issues. My strategy has been to give the access point an interesting name... A friendly name might be AskAnna another name might be informative GoAwayBob. Names like password is guest also work. Pass phrases need not be hard to remember. Examples might be: I love OLPC! or AnnaSaysWelcome. The reason to establish basic encryption is that without encryption it is too easy for some passer by to snoop up pass words to web sites. None the WiFi crypto systems are terribly strong but they do keep the riff raff out. -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch-at-niftyegg-dot-com My lifetime goal is to be the kind of person my dogs think I am. ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Static IP and DNS problems
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:23 AM, David Leeming working... how about... giving us the actual messages in the logs? . To get the interesting msgs from /var/log/messages, you can do grep named /var/log/messages named-messages.log Yes please... precision with messages is always a big help. You can restart named and then trim the messages to reflect one restart by checking the date and time. My aim is only to recover the server back to default condition. Is it possible to copy over the config files (with appropriate changes if needed) from another server installation that is running in the default state? If so which ones? Damn - that file is not under git control :-/ Get hold of the xs-config rpm (from the install cd for example) -- you can get the file from the rpm following the process outlined here: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to-extract-an-rpm-package-without-installing-it.html Good link. no need to use the root account... It may make sense to enhance the makefile to have a make clean target. If the makefile tleaves originals and work with copies such a target shouldt be possible. Also make clean uses a common target for make so the concept would reinforce common programming practices. i.e. something like. # make -f xs-config.make named-xs.conf and # make -f xs-config.make clean Another tool to invest in might be etckeeper which makes sense for servers of any kind. But that is not as simple. -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch-at-niftyegg-dot-com ___ Server-devel mailing list server-de...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Static IP and DNS problems
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:23 PM, David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com wrote: I can see a lot of occurrences of bad owner name and zone rejected in the messages log which may be related. Bad owner name is likely an typo in the zone file. The error should have the line number where the parser gave up. The error should be close to and above or if you are lucky on the line. You should see a file name to inspect and a line number. By any chance do your host names use underscores. -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch-at-niftyegg-dot-com ___ Server-devel mailing list server-de...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Static IP and DNS problems
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:43 AM, David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com wrote: I tried to set up the WAN interface with a static IP address and DNS pointing at the gateway, following instructions at It is all pretty straightforward -- but and DNS pointing at the gateway sounds suspicious. Where did you add that dns pointing at the gateway? Tell us more about the local site setup. DNS at the gateway is common in a DHCP world especially behind a NAT router. It should be possible to see what name servers the NAT router or Gateway is connected to by connecting to the configuration tool and then test them with dig or host. Another tool traceroute can let you see if you have connectivity to the name server. A static address must not be in the DHCP servers pool of addresses. What should I be looking for? - Is bind running correctly on the XS? To understand this... - are there any interesting msgs in /var/log/messages.log from named ? Do the following commands work... (executed on the XS) dig google.com @localhost dig `hostname -f` @localhost - Is /etc/resolv.conf correctly pointing to the named running on the XS? Two interesting google hosts are public name servers: $ host 8.8.8.8 8.8.8.8.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer google-public-dns-a.google.com. $ host 8.8.4.4 4.4.8.8.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer google-public-dns-b.google.com. These name servers can be used on a command line: $ host www.google.com 8.8.8.8 Using domain server: Name: 8.8.8.8 Address: 8.8.8.8#53 Aliases: www.google.com is an alias for www.l.google.com. www.l.google.com has address 74.125.19.104 www.l.google.com has address 74.125.19.103 www.l.google.com has address 74.125.19.147 www.l.google.com has address 74.125.19.99 N.B. that localhost is not resolved by google. This can be important and is commonly solved by /etc/hosts and placing a host reference in host.config. So, do check /etc/host.config you can have the local file /etc/hosts inspected by the resolver code first by setting placing hosts as the first tool in the resolver line and follow that with DNS ( bind ) $ cat /etc/host.conf multi on order hosts,bind This lets your localhost line in /etc/hosts be seen. It also lets you name hosts on the inside of a NAT that uses private networks. 192.168.0.0 – 192.168.255.255 172.16.0.0 – 172.31.255.255 10.0.0.0 – 10.255.255.255 and watch for the zero configuration IP address space 169.254.0.0/16 as described in RFC 3927 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network Private networks are interesting. They cannot be auto routed and there is no global reverse lookup Name servers for private networks are interesting. They are a couple cases, the ``easy'' one is where all the network is routed and no private networks are involved. Private networks are more interesting because outside of the private network a ``smart'' router's address is returned while inside local private network numbers are returned. Debugging requires knowing if private net numbers are being used and if the name server is returns two views one for outside lookup and another of inside lookups. Netmasks?? this is another topic of interest. Netmasks establish broadcast conventions that are important for many services. One tactic is to take advantage of local /etc/host resolution and fill in many of the interesting lookups by hand while debugging a name server. Once the debugging is finished comment out or delete the hand made edits to avoid future confusion (important). An XS server can sit inside or on the edge of a local network so the local decisions for setting up a network environment can be important. hth, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch-at-niftyegg-dot-com ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] firewalling/nocat
Please mark it GPL. A README.GPL file on your server or some comments in the source or in email should do. Lots of scripts do not have a GPL line but may have an Implied GPL in a source tree policy. Since you are not checking it in yourself it seems like a good thing to do and a courtesy to those that take it an run with it. Scripts have source so the key obligation of the GPL is done. On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Hi Martin: I've worked up what I think the basic layout of what the firewall rules need to look like that would be used with nocat's access.fw I've stripped and ported nocat's initialize.fw script for our needs, should set up the required iptable rules. access.fw accepts 4 inputs: [permit\|deny] [MAC] [IP] [Class] There are 4 classes of access, Owner, Member, Public, with None being the default, The access from ranging from full to none. (read the script) I have my rough script and the resulting rule set at: http://members.shaw.ca/jvonau/pub/iptables/ I have not tested this yet... (I need sleep now..) Just looking for feed back at this point. Just wondering since the hood is up, should we be looking to lock down the services a bit? Jerry ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch-at-niftyegg-dot-com ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] timestamps on backups
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Hamilton Chua hamilton.c...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure if anybody has noticed this yet but after doing a backup, it seems the datestamps on the backup page are wrong. We might need more detail than that if we're to understand the situation :-) Is there something about time zones and time synchronization that we need to be aware of with regards to backups. Yes, the utc time on all machines should make sense. So do date --utc on XS and on the laptops involved to make sure all players are in the same decade. This has been tested with machines on different TZs so it should work. As long as utc agrees across machines. -- martin.langh...@gmail.com http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel The two numbers 4 hours and 40 years are almost telling. Linux keeps time as seconds from midnight January 1, 1970 12:00:00 GMT. Today GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) has been replaced by UTS (Coordinated Universal Time) which is GMT done better with atomic clocks. Since you are using XS on 0.6d5 and Sugar on a Stick the system gets the initial time of day (date) from the local hardware clock. A unix/Linux system default sets the local hardware clock to UTS while windows sets it to local time. Depending on daylight savings time in (say) Oklahoma four hours looks like a Windows system setting the hardware time of day. Since Linux can be configured to play nice with windows and set the hardware clock to local time windows is not always the issue in possiblly confusing the offset from GMT/UTS. The 40 years is very close to the beginnig of unix time (zero seconds) and can be seen on a confused local time of day clock. NTP (network time protocol) tools can be used to set the time of day on a network connected system to the correct UTS time. Local time is computed based on UTS and an offset time zone. Since all binary time stamps are UTS different users can set different timezone values in their environment and the system will do the 'right' thing. See: date date --uts date -u (export TZ=Europe/Paris;date;date-u) # touch /tmp/now stat /tmp/now (export TZ=Europe/Paris; stat now) -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch-at-niftyegg-dot-com ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Duplicate IP Address
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Dave Bauer d...@solutiongrove.com wrote: I am having issues testing two soas1 virtual machines running on the same box. They got through NAT cable modem so they end up on the same ip address. The second VM can see the first in the neighborhood, but the first doesn't see the second one. I am wondering if this might have to do with the IP address sharing or where else I should look. Thanks This sounds normal. Cable modems should pick up a single public IP address via a dhcp like process. The router/Nat box should then assign private IP addresses to systems connected to it.In the context of NAT traffic to a port on the public side is translated to a port and private IP address. Commonly traffic out is triggers a translated transparent matching inbound link although firewall rules can impose additional restrictions. Virtual machines add additional confusion... with their virtualized network links. Remember that addresses in the 10.xxx.yyy.zzz and 192.168.xxx.yyy are not routed the way public nets are. -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch-at-niftyegg-dot-com ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] A simple signed bundle/directory trust scheme for the XS
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Jerry Vonau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* What use cases are you trying to support?
Insert a usb stick with content that is OK'd by the regional NOC
(network operations centre) for execution/installation on the XS.
-
* What security
properties are you trying to check?
Signed by the NOC, not changed.
Why not encrypt the partition on the usb-stick? Not too sure what all
that would involve, just some food for thought.
Caution, strong encryption is not legal in all the world.
Better to just use signed RPMs and perhaps hand verifiable checksums.
Key point: RPMs can be re-signed.
Some of the most in need parts of the world are places where trust
is most fragile. I suspect that digital signatures and checksums can
be used to keep all the OLPC processes as reliable, open and
transparent as possible. Encryption implies a deep lack of trust to
me. Signed files permits trust and also verification. Also the
ability to extract and verify without a secret the content of any
package might be important in a troubled region.
Summary: RPMs can be re-signed this permits local organizations to
pickup, verify, test and if their policy desires re-sign the packages
for local, regional use.
Fragment from the man page:
Signatures:
rpm {-K | --checksig} [signature-options] PACKAGE_FILE...
rpm {--addsign | --resign} PACKAGE_FILE...
So signed by the NOC, and not changed is possible to do. The
regional NOC may need to manage the secret half of their keys and
distribute the public half of their but that is less of a problem and
more trusting and open than full encryption.
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Re: [Server-devel] Static Ip settings
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:38 PM, James Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 08:19:30AM -0700, Tom Mitchell wrote: The comment about Debian version reminds me to ask about man and info pages. Is there a set of man pages that matches the packages for various XO installations? Since XO disk space is small I expect an online or school server cache These are deleted from the build after the RPMs are installed but before the final images are made. For specific manual pages one might reinstall the RPM involved, but a general capture of the whole documentation tree isn't available. An idea I had was to build an RPM of the documentation being deleted during the build, and providing this for download. I've not investigated how to do that. Thanks -- Documentation that matches the package set as delivered will be needed. I have not looked for the build scripts... Is there a pointer? -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch-at-niftyegg-dot-com ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Static Ip settings
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 04:50:20PM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:10:13PM -0700, Tom Mitchell wrote:
I have not looked for the build scripts... Is there a pointer?
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/mstone/puritan;f=install_hacks.py;hb=devel_jffs2
line 161.
# kill caches and documentation (needs to be done after we finish reading the
rpm db)
for dir in ('var/lib/rpm', 'var/lib/yum', 'var/cache/yum', 'usr/share/doc',
'usr/share/man', 'usr/share/info', 'usr/kerberos/man'):
lout(['/bin/rm', '-r', '-f', join(root, dir)])
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Thank you
Removing the man and info pages is an obvious and necessary step to keep within
the
tight space limits of the XO.In a not too urgent future .. I would like to
see the rm become a mv so they can be captured and packaged for
something like a school server or slurped into some laptop.org web location
for reference by teachers, users and those doing community support.
Is this worth a low priority tracking ticket or some such...?
Regards,
mitch
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Re: [Server-devel] Static Ip settings
The comment about Debian version reminds me to ask about man and info pages. Is there a set of man pages that matches the packages for various XO installations? Since XO disk space is small I expect an online or school server cache On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 5:08 PM, James Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 09:40:04AM +1100, David Leeming wrote: Thanks James, I think this was a case of a typo and fixation with the error staring me in the face!! Sometimes one should look for the obvious!!! ;-) I used the Debian version of ipcalc in my reply. Should you need it, another variant of ipcalc is on the XO, as part of the initscripts package, but it has different syntax ... $ ipcalc --netmask 202.0.158.96/29 NETMASK=255.255.255.248 -- James Cameronmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch-at-niftyegg-dot-com ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
