Re: [Server-devel] Test

2018-03-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
Is this the real James Cameron? m On Thu, Mar 29, 2018, 7:00 PM James Cameron wrote: > Test message. Random words. > > akimbo halfpennies lama griffins regressed happen priors maternal > davis torrens devalues sven discombobulates convection determinant > equestrian

Re: [Server-devel] [support-gang] jffs2 vs ubifs vs ext4 space-efficiency question

2015-12-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 4:28 PM, James Cameron wrote: > Yes, jffs2 compresses data. That's why it is so slow. That's why SD > card is faster than it should be otherwise. +1 on James reply. Also a quick note: AIUI, jffs2 gets much of its storage advantage from better packing

Re: [Server-devel] [support-gang] [Sugar-devel] how to remove WiFi credential/history from Sugar?

2015-09-25 Thread Martin Langhoff
NM has this info somewhere. Play with nmcli to try find it, manipulate it. m On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Adam Holt wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > >> try: >> cd /etc >> sudo grep -R . >> > > It responds, as

Re: [Server-devel] Upgrade many machines

2014-01-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 7:33 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: No reason, thanks for reminding me. I guess xs-rsync on the local server? yep - oatslite to send the upgrade msg - XOs need to be registered - xs-rsync to host the new img There are several possible gotchas I have not

Re: [Server-devel] Does XSCE need a new Home?

2013-12-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 8:13 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: When I was first exploring the process of building something on top of schoolserver 0.7, I found ancestry of different components (documented at http://schoolserver.wordpress.com/xs-installation/rpm-heritage/). I think we

Re: [Server-devel] Running complete Wikipedia offline

2012-12-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: I've been debating the possibility of running a *complete* copy of Wikipedia (txt and images) offline on the XS. At this point, the targets are English (https://en.wikipedia.org) and Hindi (https://hi.wikipedia.org). It

Re: [Server-devel] armv7hl vs armv7l

2012-07-06 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 6:52 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: I'm glad that the trimslice generated rpms I have will be usable.  I'll need to learn how to override the default arch, so that yum will do what I want it to do. But I have google for that! You should not need to override

Re: [Server-devel] Moodle broken with 0.94 datastore?

2012-06-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: current entries in /library/user/SN.  Any thoughts on how to proceed? Needs fixing :-/ Sameer is right. m --  martin.langh...@gmail.com  mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC  - ask interesting questions  - don't get

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration XO-1 with XS

2012-04-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
When the problem happens, it'll be interesting to see the output of olpc-netstatus and olpc-xos cmdline utilities on XOs that have trouble and on those that don't. There's additional debugging info you can get from ejabberd on the XS. There's a page in the wiki (in the XS techniques page?) that

Re: [Server-devel] Browse or Moodle-XS error - Redirect Loop Redirection limit reached

2012-04-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 7:39 AM, David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com wrote: Also found a file named.run which is nearly 1GB in size, – I gather this is a debugging file, can I disable the function that generates it? Will Normally named.run should only contain a number, a small integer.

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: appliance runs nothing more than ejabberd. There's no moodle, dhcp, dns or other services. How does the appliance get a domain name? Then the children just set a collaboration server to connect to in the

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: think the Trimslice H is going to one of the best models as you can put a decent HDD in there and have a self contained unit, although I would love a dual eth option. It has a HDD bay! Yay! Wanna! m --  

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:55 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: Why not an XO-1.75 ? Good point. And XO + AP + HDD would work fantastic. George, how many users per server? If 100, an XO-1.75 will do ok. Want to sign up for the Contributors Programme (search in the wiki for the URL).

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:29 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: When I took the picture in the following url, I was focusing on what it would take to run off of 12V deep cycle battery: http://schoolserver.wordpress.com/xs-installation/xs-0-7-running-on-xo-1-5/ That's very cool!

Re: [Server-devel] XS on ARM update.

2012-04-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:13 PM, rihowa...@gmail.com rihowa...@gmail.com wrote: I have been meaning to email you an update about XS on ARM for a while. I had to take a hiatus from what I was doing with it, but started back on it a while back. Great that you're back on track. True, Fedora

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Why is it such a bad idea? The thought was to do away with registration, moodle and other unnecessary services and focus only on the XMPP server. You want to run a network of federated XMPP servers? It's

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:03 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: I left my fitpc2 and msi servers in the Philippines, hoping they would be pressed into service in a classroom situation.  So now I'm in the market for another toy. If you have time towork with us through some hitches, I'd

Re: [Server-devel] xs-pkgs

2012-03-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mar 29, 2012 5:52 PM, Tim Moody timmo...@sympatico.ca wrote: (btw installing straight from cd never worked for me as it failed on the disk partitioning regardless of the options I chose) I've seen that happen when the disk has strange partitioning information. Anaconda queries the disk, gets

[Server-devel] oatslite under RHEL/CentOS x86_64

2012-03-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
We just had some fun debugging of oatslite on CentOS 6.2 x86_64. A quick note of warning in case someone else is mad or foolish enough to try it too :-) The short version of it is: bitfrost is currently broken on 64 bits. This is what an XS based on CentOS x86_64 needs to run oatslite:  -

Re: [Server-devel] oatslite under RHEL/CentOS x86_64

2012-03-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org wrote: Does this effect xs-activation installed on XS 0.7? XS-0.7 is 32-bits only. Yeah, and there be dragons in the 64 bit path, confirmed. I got the burn

Re: [Server-devel] XO/XS Networking Issues

2012-03-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
You have a chicken-and-egg problem there. Maybe you can download the rpms you need from another computer? m On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Shaun Pickford shaun.pickf...@gmail.com wrote: I am currently in Haiti working to set up a school server in a partner school that has ~20 XO's.  We have

Re: [Server-devel] XS on XO

2012-02-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
incompat, I'd try this next. cheers, m { Martin Langhoff - one laptop per child } ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] XS on XO

2012-02-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
I'd recommend, on XO-1.5 - take a 11.x.y buid - use the yum repos dsd prepared for XS, groupinstall the right group (OLPC School Server?) - disable the prefdm service (remove/rename /etc/init/prefdm) - disable NM service, enable the 'network' service (using chkconfig) F14 and RHEL/CentOS6.2 are

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 beta 1 released

2012-02-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: In /isolinux/isolinux.cfg, upgradeany is used with full install options, think that will force anaconda into upgrade mode. This was copied over from the earlier XS-0.7 work. I see that XS-0.6 does not include this option.

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 beta 1 released

2012-02-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 6:55 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: CD?  Haven't used one of those for a while.  You might use it as a media file for VirtualBox or some other software, in order to avoid burning to CD. Heh. What you do, is use livecd-iso-to-disk to prep a USB stick as a

Re: [Server-devel] XS on Ubuntu - what is the status?

2012-02-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Adam, with the cleanup and reorganization work that's being done for xs-0.7, it is now a lot more reasonable to say that the XS software and configuration could be ported/packaged to Debian/Ubuntu. There is of course work to do on that track -- some of the most trivial packages may just

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 review round 3

2012-02-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Friday, February 10, 2012, Daniel Drake wrote: Everything acked so far has been pushed and built, output is at http://dev.laptop.org/xs/repos/stable/olpc/xs-0.7/i386/ Pending items are: 1. Moodle - needs 'pu' branch review, and the possible updates you mentioned. For now, the repo

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 CentOS6.2 rebase - other pending items

2012-02-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: I now have an XS fully up and running and passing all my basic tests. Here are the remaining items that need addressing before we have a test release: Great news. ejabberd - see the other thread. Need to decide on forking

Re: [Server-devel] ejabberd-2.1.10 issues

2012-02-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: As you've seen - getting this old version to build is difficult. Getting it to run is even harder. Yep. Was just a stab in the alternative path. Now that you've root-cause'd the issue, things look better. I think I've found

Re: [Server-devel] XS rebase review

2012-02-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Ready for the next round of reviews for the XS work. I've now performed basic testing of all aspects of the system, so I feel this is ready for merging and wider testing. Thanks! xs-config: pu branch recreated. Changes since

Re: [Server-devel] XS rebase review

2012-02-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:23 AM, rihowa...@gmail.com rihowa...@gmail.com wrote: Which releases of erlang and ejabbered are you using? I unfortunately don't have the version number handy, but this should help: this coming XS release only ships a configuration and init scripts for ejabberd -- it's

Re: [Server-devel] XS rebase review

2012-02-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:55 AM, Tabitha Roder tabi...@tabitha.net.nz wrote: I have likely missed some previous discussions, but are we moving to Moodle 2.x or staying with Moodle 1.9.x on XS? Daniel is doing a very focused update of the XS, to run on a more current Linux base

Re: [Server-devel] New XS release very soon

2012-02-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: How will this play with XS on ARM? It won't at all, yet. However, the liberation of the packages from the base install is the first step in this direction.

Re: [Server-devel] New XS release very soon

2012-02-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: As agreed and directed by Martin this will become the next OLPC XS release. And you can't imagine how pleased I am with this! Here in Nicaragua, the Zamora Teran Foundation has the task *this month* of deploying One Laptop

Re: [Server-devel] XS rebase review

2012-02-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Pushed an old branch - please look again now. Looks great. The only problem is the name - rename pu to master. ds-backup: pu branch ready for review Looks good.  We'll make a server client release together. I have a

Re: [Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

2012-02-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: I'm worried about the expertise required in order to identify such repos and packages. We need this process to be doable without me in the room. Agreed. I assume that RHEL is pretty good for server-class hardware found in

Re: [Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

2012-02-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: However, having installed/run CentOS 6.2 for the first time I now have my doubts about this. I installed it on a server where the network interface does not appear with F9 (but does work with more recent Fedora). With CentOS,

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Server project initiation announce

2011-06-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@activitycentral.org wrote: In fact, the project started three weeks ago but for now some of its core purposes became more clear, ie, ready for announcing. You guys are *weird*. I've been hearing from AC for a while that you'd help with XS, in

Re: [Server-devel] OLPC Australia XS concerns

2011-06-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
[mailto:server-devel-boun...@lists.laptop.org] On Behalf Of Anna Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 4:54 PM To: Martin Langhoff Cc: Sridhar Dhanapalan; XS Devel Subject: Re: [Server-devel] OLPC Australia XS concerns On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com

Re: [Server-devel] [Dextrose] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Server project initiation announce

2011-06-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:44 PM, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com wrote: You are 100% correct in these criticisms and concerns about Activity Central. We are a new company working in a new market. Failures and mistakes are inevitable. If you have been hurt by those mistakes, I

Re: [Server-devel] e: Regarding my OLPC XS Wishlist (Abhishek Singh)

2011-06-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:30 PM, TONY ANDERSON tony_ander...@usa.net wrote: Meanwhile I have posted my version of the wish list as a wiki page: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/School_Server_Wish_List Ntoe that people go to our wiki in search for documentation. That is your _personal_ wishlist.

Re: [Server-devel] Regarding my OLPC XS Wishlist

2011-06-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:20 AM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@activitycentral.org wrote: btw, I'm planing to use Prosody instead of ejabberd. I have really bad experiance w/ ejabberd - on jabber.sugarlabs.org it eats too many resources for regular 10-30 online users. Prosody is slim and light app and it

Re: [Server-devel] Regarding my OLPC XS Wishlist

2011-06-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@activitycentral.org wrote: Have you spent any time learning how to configure ejabberd? Diagnosing your problem? Discussing it on the ejabberd mailing list? Well, I assume OLPC people did it many times before me, I just reused their

Re: [Server-devel] [Dextrose] Regarding my OLPC XS Wishlist

2011-06-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Thanks. Send me your public ssh key, I'll give you access to the machine Sorry - no time, 1.75 has a pretty rigid timeline! When I did have time to work on ejabberd, I did as described and worked a charm. Also -- I

Re: [Server-devel] XS wishlist

2011-05-31 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Came across this via Twitter: http://asingh.com.np/blog/olpc-xs-my-wishlist/ Yeah - unfortunate that it didnt get posted here. Porting XS to new version of Fedora Support for multiple architecture Yes - squarerly in my

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] copy files to/from server

2011-05-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Martin Abente martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com wrote: I still didn't make up my mind about which technical approach should I take in order to get this working, but I guess people already started sharing some ideas. And I would appreciate more ideas and discussion

Re: [Server-devel] What rpm packages would you include for the XS?

2011-04-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: I have put together a running F11 based XS-server package. This soon to Nice. What would you like to see on the install iso that you would find useful? Puppet wwwoffle opendns client m --  martin.langh...@gmail.com  

Re: [Server-devel] Hibrid configuration for the XS-server|XS inside a network

2011-04-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Alvar Maciel al...@tuquito.org.ar wrote: My name is Alvar Maciel, I'm from Argentina and in our school we are trying to use the moodle of the XS-Server. Hi Alvar! Jerry Vonau has done some very good work on this track. I don't recommend at all a VM. Instead,

Re: [Server-devel] Network Backup of Journal Video Items

2011-03-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Sebastian Silva sebast...@sugarlabs.org wrote: So now I'm going to try and ease the workflow by having each laptop transmit asynchroniously what they record You may want to ask Jon Nettleton for some experimental patches for record he's mentioned recently, using

Re: [Server-devel] Network Backup of Journal Video Items

2011-03-24 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Sebastian, can you tell us a bit more? You be recording with XO-1 units... using Record in Sugar? What version of Sugar and Record? Or you'll use gstreamer directly to the server? One possibility would be to write to an NFS share -- but 'realtime' recording of videos over wlan is tricky and

Re: [Server-devel] Help buying server for XS

2011-03-24 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hola Omar! Guillermo's notes are good -- he is getting good results with that hardware. Some more info - Access Points tested with XO-1 and XO-1.5 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wireless_access_point_compatibility - Some recommended HW and notes on how to choose HW - also look at the server

Re: [Server-devel] callhome script

2011-03-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
It's unfortunately broken. I half-fixed it for La Rioja (Argentina) but don't have a copy with me. Even fixed, it needs additional infra to collect the pubkeys of all the XSs. In LR we did it with puppet. At the end of the day, what you _really_ want is puppet :-)

Re: [Server-devel] Modularizing the school server

2011-03-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 12:45 AM, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com wrote: Over the past couple of months Activity Central has be looking at the possibility of puppetizing school server setup. Hi David(s), a couple of weeks have gone by since your msg. And we've been in touch in

Re: [Server-devel] Re-registering an XO against an XS

2011-03-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Here's a scenario:  1. child's XO stuffs up  2. XO's OS is re-flashed  3. XO is registered again against the XS  4. XO has its backups restored from the XS  5. collaboration, classroom segregation, etc. work as

[Server-devel] Created '/git/packages' for fedpkg-style repos, reorganized XS source repos

2011-02-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
In dev.laptop.org, I created /git/packages -- to store git repos that follow the fedpkg style. Very useful for any packages that aren't in Fedora, or where we patch or frob the pkg slightly. And converted almost all the XS-related packages to use this infra. Changes - Trimmed trailing '.git'

Re: [Server-devel] wwwoffle?

2011-02-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Dan Zubey dzu...@openincident.com wrote: Just out of curiosity, what issues have you seen with squid? I've run it for many many years, and would be curious to hear what problems you've seen. Search the list archive for squid and memory :-) Nope. :) The part I

Re: [Server-devel] wwwoffle?

2011-02-06 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Dan Zubey dzu...@openincident.com wrote: Alright, sorry about the slow work on this..dayjob and all that. I've got a framework coming together however. Excellent! One question though..both wwwoffle and squid can talk to an external proxy instead of pulling

Re: [Server-devel] Recommended tropical island XS hardware

2011-02-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Tom Parker t...@carrott.org wrote: Is there a recommended school server hardware these days? Not really, but the market is moving in the right direction. Thise fanless boxes you mention... The schools in question are probably less than 200 students each, so I'm

Re: [Server-devel] Question on number of iptables rules

2011-02-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:28 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. In general, I'd keep it closed. It's not designed as a full internet server. Getting them

Re: [Server-devel] HELP regarding ejabberd, getting not_allowed error.

2011-01-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Xahid zahid.b...@gmail.com wrote: its working fine NOW, I logged on, using the 1st XO registered, That is EXCELLENT! Great news. How many XOs will the XS be serving? Are the APs working well? altho. my Part is finished here, but i would like to know, how to

Re: [Server-devel] pungi vs anaconda buildinstall: TMPDIR works, local cache ignored...

2011-01-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Sergio Monteiro Basto ser...@sergiomb.no-ip.org wrote: I almost forgot , pungi (on buildinstall) also creates boot.iso which you may able to create usb boot disk , That's an excellent tip. Thanks! m --  martin.langh...@gmail.com  mar...@laptop.org --

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Is that because the wlan card does not support hostap (I haven't verified this)? Correct. We have experimental kernel patches + firmware for this but they are very *very* green. What if the card simply ran in ad-hoc mode? It

Re: [Server-devel] HELP regarding ejabberd, getting not_allowed error.

2011-01-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Xahid! On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Xahid zahid.b...@gmail.com wrote: NOW, all the XO can connect with XS easily using Wifi, Excellent! Have you used the register option from the XOs? It appears in the same menu where you have the 'shutdown' option. After registering this way, old

Re: [Server-devel] wwwoffle?

2011-01-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Dan Zubey dzu...@openincident.com wrote: What about distributing an rpm package that additionally includes xs-specific scripts for wwwoffle, apache proxy configuration, and /etc/init.d ? That way there's no need to do sed re-configuration back and forth. You

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Sorry about the delayed response (school is back in session), but can I assume that XS 0.7 will run on a XO 1.5? Definitely on the wishlist, but not a given. Even if it does, one of the desired features is very unlikely to

[Server-devel] xs-activity-server dotted versions

2011-01-26 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: If I revert this patch, I get the webpage to render the first time running /usr/bin/xs-regenerate-activities /library/xs-activity-server/activities

Re: [Server-devel] xs-activity-server dotted versions

2011-01-26 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: If I revert this patch, I get the webpage to render the first time running /usr/bin/xs-regenerate-activities /library/xs-activity-server

Re: [Server-devel] xs-activity-server dotted versions

2011-01-26 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Yea thanks, just was looking at the git repo. Having 2 versions of the activity still rendered showing as link to the older version under the latest version, thought that was enough. I don't fully understand. With my latest

Re: [Server-devel] HELP regarding ejabberd, getting not_allowed error.

2011-01-25 Thread Martin Langhoff
Copying list - On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Xahid zahid.b...@gmail.com wrote: I have ADD another Lan Card in the Server (thought, i need another one for Local Area Connection) so, its eth1 but its

Re: [Server-devel] ejabberd online patch for Fedora's rpm...

2011-01-25 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Peter Lemenkov lemen...@gmail.com wrote: Add yourself here: Done ... Just don't break stuff. :) No prob. I'll move slowly and ask you questions first :-) thanks!!! m --  mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect  - ask interesting questions  - don't get

Re: [Server-devel] HELP regarding ejabberd, getting not_allowed error.

2011-01-24 Thread Martin Langhoff
Info is interesting to the list, so re-posting there -- On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Xahid zahid.b...@gmail.com wrote: hostname -f return schoolserver.schoolserver.pak.org Ok - then try  ejabberctl

[Server-devel] pungi vs anaconda buildinstall: TMPDIR works, local cache ignored...

2011-01-24 Thread Martin Langhoff
Working with Pungi 2.1.4 to build the School Server OLPC spin (which fir test purposes is being done on F14, though that's not the final target). - Seems like Pungi has for a long time avoided setting a smart TMPDIR when calling anaconda's buildinstall. This uses a sizable chunk of /tmp . I've

[Server-devel] Revisiting @online@ patch

2011-01-24 Thread Martin Langhoff
 - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first  - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff From f98185d4da9ed34df7e5e3bf7f0b8e4b1b169e6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:55:22 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] New version

Re: [Server-devel] wwwoffle?

2011-01-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Dan! Welcome to the jungle! I'm in the middle of prepping an XS release, and yes, wwwoffle would be a nice thing to include. If you search the list archives (google for 'site:lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel wwwoffle') Anna has written a bit of a howto and was keep on working towards

Re: [Server-devel] HELP regarding ejabberd, getting not_allowed error.

2011-01-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Xahid zahid.b...@gmail.com wrote: I've installed the OLPC School Server as per instructed at web site, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/School_server Welcome! Glad that you're installing an XS. Let me see if I can help... [root@schoolserver]# ejabberctl status Mode

Re: [Server-devel] The old xs-livecd is the new olpc-xs-builder

2011-01-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: While not as modular and elegant as olpc-os-builder, we do have a collection of tools and configs that, operated correctly, build XS isos for installation. This can be useful to prepare a custom auto-intalling

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: So -- going back on the traffic we've see in the last 24 months, what would you highlight? What have people asked for (that wasn't easy/trivial/possible)? What problems have we heard that were hard to diagnose

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:12 AM, rihowa...@gmail.com rihowa...@gmail.com wrote: The Fedora 13 ARM port is intended to be a complete a port as possible and should have the bits required as a base for the XS. Excellent news! I hope you keep the Fedora RPMs as RHEL6/CentOS6 do not support ARM.

[Server-devel] Pungi features - (was: Is pungi the preferred composer for installers?)

2011-01-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: Pungi is what is used for the install images released by the Fedora Project. So for install images it makes sense to use that tool. Thanks! So we turn to trying to do what I used to do with revisor, which I am not sure pungi

[Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
Ay ay ay! This last 12 months have been frantic, as I've ended up biting off a ton more than common sense would recommend to chew. And then chewing, slowly, awkwardly. Good things have come out of the hard work of this year, but the XS has been delayed. One good piece of news is that I've helped

Re: [Server-devel] Notes on Flashing the NAND over the LAN

2011-01-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Anna ascho...@gmail.com wrote: With the release of 10.1.3, I thought I'd revisit flashing an XO over the LAN.  Here are my notes, if anyone's interested. Interesting! For a full reflash, as James pointed out, NANDBlaster wins. But if you have laptops out there

Re: [Server-devel] documentación hacerca de los scri ps del bios-crypto del XS

2011-01-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
2011/1/5 Kevin Mauricio Benavides Castro webmaster.ac@gmail.com: he buscado información acerca de los scrips del  bios-crypto del XS Dentro del bios-crypto, hay un par de READMEs que tienen info (rpm -ql olpc-bios-crypto lista todos los archivos... ) Esos READMEs están en cada XS, y online

Re: [Server-devel] One server NIC - using Sugar on Linux, not OLPCs

2010-12-31 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Rob Echlin r...@echlin.ca wrote: I tried xs-swapnics, but that did not put the LAN stuff on eth0. What it does is -- it changes config so the NIC you have is now eth1. That eth1 does not directly have an IP, but is bonded into 'lanbond0' which does. As Tom

Re: [Server-devel] Connecting the a Schoolserver via SSH

2010-12-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote: I was testing the server with about 12 XOs today. They all connected fine and had internet connections. But the performance seemed slow. It took several seconds for pages to load at times. Gerald, you need to

Re: [Server-devel] Cloning and hardware addresses

2010-12-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:53 PM, David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com wrote: Sub note to this. I found I had to delete the file altogether. Then it works. It regenerates the file with the new hardware addresses so if the HDD is moved again, I guess this step needs repeating. Yes. And if

Re: [Server-devel] XS on ASUS Eee PC Network Driver Missing

2010-12-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Andra DuPont andradup...@gmail.com wrote: I'm installing XS 0.6 on an ASUS Eee PC with an Atheros AR8132 Network Chipset which is not supported on the current XS distribution. Looks like you need http://partner.atheros.com/Drivers.aspx - grab the linux driver.

Re: [Server-devel] XS on ASUS Netbook - Display Problem

2010-12-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Andra DuPont andradup...@gmail.com wrote: Martin, Success... Glad to hear! You may want to consider adding this to future server releases, assuming that it doesn't cause problems on other platforms. When I get some time to work on the next release, we

Re: [Server-devel] XS on ASUS Netbook - Display Problem

2010-12-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Andra DuPont andradup...@gmail.com wrote: I have installed XS 0.6 on an ASUS 1005PEB Eee PC. The server is running fine except that the screen went dark at server start-up right after the starting udev was displayed on the screen. My screen stays dark and can

Re: [Server-devel] XS on ASUS Netbook - Display Problem

2010-12-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Andra DuPont andradup...@gmail.com wrote: So apparently one of the drivers that is installed is conflicting with the screen brightness. Your analysis seems 100% correct. I'd suggest - - run lsmod, it'll tell you what modules are being loaded - one of them

Re: [Server-devel] pgsql-xs fail during boot process

2010-11-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Dudley, apologies about the delay. Your email is a bit confusing -- are you having problems with pgsql-xs failing to start during the boot process? Or are you having problems with apache serving the html content? Or both? - Maybe your /library partition is full? - Does Postgresql report

Re: [Server-devel] named + OpenDNS

2010-11-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hola Guillermo! comments below... On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Guillermo Narvaez gnrvz...@gmail.com wrote: We did changes on the named-xs-conf.in to use OpenDNS servers. Just adding: forwarders { 172.18.0.1; ip_opendns1; ip_opendns2;}; Don't put your own IP address in the forwarders! Just

Re: [Server-devel] Jabber presence under NAT named under DMZ issues

2010-11-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Anna ascho...@gmail.com wrote: After a couple of recent power outages and some disappointed users, I tried out the XS on an XO again, which I'll call XSXO from now on. An XO-1 is a tiny, tiny server. Bear in mind I would not expect it to handle much more than

Re: [Server-devel] automount external HD

2010-10-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: I haven't tested it, but if you create 92-mount.rules (or whatever 90 something is available) in /etc/udev/rules.d with this... SUBSYSTEM==block, run+=/bin/mount -a It's a clever move, but after thinking about it, it is

Re: [Server-devel] automount external HD

2010-10-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: I am using XS-on -XO1 version 0.6. Excellent! I want to use an external USB hard drive and mount it as /library at boot time. I have added a line in /etc/fstab /dev/sda1   /library    ext3   defaults   0  0 as others have

Re: [Server-devel] automount external HD

2010-10-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 2:00 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: something up, or do I mess with /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf? Not sure IIRC -- haven't looked at usbmount code or docs in a while... you should be able to config usbmount to recognize that drive somehow and mount it in a

Re: [Server-devel] PDA mambot on XS

2010-10-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 6:39 AM, David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com wrote: No-one has replied to this, but I remain interested in a mobile friendly plugin for the XS. I personally don't even know what mambot is (and I'm under a pile of hi-pri work). If you outline goals more openly

Re: [Server-devel] Enable group info for yum to use

2010-09-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Jerry, On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Think I found the place to enable the yum group that I spoke of earlier, patch is against xs-release. Now with createrepo creating the group thanks! I like that. With this, we can kill the ugly xs-pkgs. cheers, m

[Server-devel] Puppet @ XS

2010-09-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi list, Amongst many things that have kept me away from doing XS dev work, I've recently been working with the local team for de La Rioja (Argentina) deployment. One of the key topics was remote admin, as they have a fast-growing number of XSs. So it was a good chance to rip into Puppet. The

Re: [Server-devel] Observations and question about http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Software_Repositories

2010-09-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: There's more details about ARM on Fedora on the project page (which also links to the arm mailing list etc). http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM Yeah, but I looked at it earlier today and it still touts

[Server-devel] oatslite: Report stolen and fix

2010-08-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
interesting questions  - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first  - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff From ba7ed795d9874dce629f3693357662d42efb842d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:36:08 -0300 Subject: [PATCH

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