Re: [Server-devel] Centos as a base for sugar-Dextrose? and/or XSCE

2013-07-28 Thread Tom Mitchell
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

Re: [Server-devel] DNS on XS 0.7

2013-04-24 Thread Tom Mitchell
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

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

2011-02-01 Thread Tom Mitchell
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

Re: [Server-devel] IP Address Pools for XOs, known clients, and unknown clients on XS 0.6

2011-01-12 Thread Tom Mitchell
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

Re: [Server-devel] Static IP and DNS problems

2010-06-29 Thread Tom Mitchell
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

Re: [Server-devel] firewalling/nocat

2009-09-29 Thread Tom Mitchell
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

Re: [Server-devel] timestamps on backups

2009-09-16 Thread Tom Mitchell
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

Re: [Server-devel] Duplicate IP Address

2009-04-06 Thread Tom Mitchell
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

Re: [Server-devel] A simple signed bundle/directory trust scheme for the XS

2008-08-13 Thread Tom Mitchell
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

Re: [Server-devel] Static Ip settings

2008-08-12 Thread Tom Mitchell
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

Re: [Server-devel] Static Ip settings

2008-08-12 Thread Tom Mitchell
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

Re: [Server-devel] Static Ip settings

2008-08-11 Thread Tom Mitchell
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