[Server-devel] questions: lease/activation, deploying .xo/.xol, register XOs
Hi, i just started to do some testing with the XS for our project in Ethiopa. I have some questions concerning the features (which weren't solved for me studying the wiki): 1. How can I activate XOs with the XS? Where do I have to put the lease files? 2. We like to do software updates (deploying .xo and .xol files) for the XOs with the server. Is this possible? We are looking for an option that works automatically (like the USB-stick option) 3. What does it mean to register an XO on a server? What is the benefit to do so? Kind regards, Christian ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] Time for another Server-Devel Meeting IRC or Skype?
Martin, We are putting a lot of work into the XS here in Nepal after a long absence. David Van Assche is now w/ OLE nepal full-time in Kathmandu working on the XS. We want to make sure we are moving in the same direction and not waste anyone's time. How about an IRC or Skype meeting open to all those interested in the XS later this week? If it's an IRC meeting I will be happy to post it to the wiki. Regards, Bryan Berry OLE Nepal ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] [Fwd: Re: Using XO HW with an XS image]
forwarding for anyone interested... Original Message Subject:Re: [Server-devel] Using XO HW with an XS image Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 23:33:40 +1200 From: Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Tyler Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just curious about a few things: what specifically defines a school server? If my 'server' runs an idmgr, apache, ntpd, dhcpd, and ejabberd , is that everything I need? You need xs-config. Prepare to be scared, very. The trickiest point is /etc/sysconfig/olpc-scripts/network_config - the rest is relatively portable. xs-pkgs is overbroad. I will tighten that up when we move to F9, perhaps earlier. Is there any reason to keep this offlist? If not, plz forward this email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so others can learn and help :-) otherwise, my time gets soaked up in a zillion private conversations that have 0-cross-pollination... Just trying to figure out how things are structured / defined. If you could give me a shout I'd appreciate it, I'll be on gtalk for a while (as williams.tyler) or on IRC, or on email, but a quick chat might be more efficient than email here. Ask on server-devel@ and I guarantee reply. Ask in private and there's a good chance of... /dev/null :-) Also - I've filed a few task/enhancement bugs on the tracker (component:schoolserver) that describe the technical challenges of porting to F9 -- you are enterprising enough to be using F9 :-) , so do read those. Also look at stuff about reworking xs-config. - there's been good traffic lately on server-devel@ explaining my plans and some related architectural stuff. Check out the archives... cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] F9 timeframe?
Martin, When do you expect that we'll move the XS to Fedora 9? Thank you. Andrew Berkowitz DOE 2 MetroTech Center, Suite 3900 Brooklyn, NY 11201 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 718-935-5471 ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] DNS Connectivity Issues
Hi Glen, Is there an IP I can use to ssh to the server while the dns issues are resolved? Thanks, Tarun Glen Roberts wrote: Today just after noon (edt) our Qwest internet connection (not the one the EDU server is on) went down. I was in the middle of upgrading the DNS servers so it frustrated that task enormously. Qwest seemed to have the service more or less restored by 4:30 PM or so. At that time I noticed an email from ATT saying that they had monitored outages on our ATT circuit (the one the EDU server is on). Apparently this was of an intermittent nature. Apparently Verizon had a fiber cut somewhere The result is that DNS was probably down for 5+ hours and the connection otherwise intermittent. There may still be DNS issues but I am too tired to dig too deeply until tomorrow. 65.118.27.2 was probably configured as a secondary dns in /etc/resolv.conf on edublog. It might be better to change that to 208.67.222.222 (opendns.org) as 65.118.27.2 is no long active. Glen _ Total Blog Directory http://www.totalblogdirectory.com ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] F9 timeframe?
2008/8/5 Berkowitz Andrew (Project Connect) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When do you expect that we'll move the XS to Fedora 9? Good question. The main holdup is the network configuration scripting we have. The XS configures its NICs and USB-connected antennae and general networking setup in fairly specific ways, and the infrastructure changed between F7 and F9 significantly. In practice, I want to do it *after* a release with good features. So help me make xs-0.4/xs-0.5 a good deployable-for-pilots-and-test-sites feature release, and the following release will be a port to F9. [Or, if you rather help preparing the port ahead of me - if someone is keen on tackling port the network scriop and others bits of xs-config, I can spare a bit of time to help flesh out a plan.] cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Time for another Server-Devel Meeting IRC or Skype?
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are putting a lot of work into the XS here in Nepal after a long absence. Cool - David Van Assche is now w/ OLE nepal full-time in Kathmandu working on the XS. We want to make sure we are moving in the same direction and not waste anyone's time. Excellent! Sounds like you guys are doing a lot How about an IRC or Skype meeting open to all those interested in the XS later this week? If it's an IRC meeting I will be happy to post it to the wiki. Good idea. We can do it via IRC I think -- if it's just us, we can switch to Skype as long as we get some minutes somehow :-) Looking at suitable times, I am thinking of this Friday (NZ time, Thursday for everyone else ;-) ) - look at: http://worldtimeserver.com/meeting-planner-times.aspx?L0=NZL1=NPL2=GBL3=US-MAL4=Day=8Mon=8Y=2008 It is hard to coordinate a good time for Nepal and NZ and the American continent. It would be fantastic if Greg Smith can make it - I am thinking - 2PM - early morn for Nepal, 10pm for 1CC - 11PM - late night for me, easy for everyone else! :-/ let's have a quick RSVP - so we can prioritise timezones. cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] F9 timeframe?
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/8/5 Berkowitz Andrew (Project Connect) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When do you expect that we'll move the XS to Fedora 9? Good question. The main holdup is the network configuration scripting we have. BTW, this is the query to keep trac of: http://dev.laptop.org/query?status=assignedstatus=newstatus=reopenedgroup=milestonecomponent=school+serversummary=~9col=idcol=summarycol=statuscol=typecol=priorityorder=priorityrow=description cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] Understanding the network scripts on F7-based XS
Our current network migration scripts are reportedly build on interfaces that are F7 specific. To reimplement them on F9, we need to understand what they do. Jerry is knowledgeable in F9's networking and has offered help with the port. The first step is to understand what the current scripts do - separated from the how. So I will try to outline the design and behaviour of the current scripts. The first point of entry is reading the whole Networking section in this page. All of it :-) http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Configuration_Management#Networking It introduces - network_config - principal_config - auxiliary_config These scripts deal with - Configuring network interfaces - 1 NIC scenarios have eth0 as WAN / 2 NIC scenarios add eth1 as LAN - Can set preferential MAC address prefix for some interfaces. This can be used by the NOC team to get the right NIC setup as eth0. - Sets up the pair of ethX/mshY interfaces that are attached to every Active Antenna. - Sets up all the bridges between the interfaces considered LAN - Picking non-conflicting IP addresses for auxiliary servers. - Sets the router address for auxiliary servers - Very rough service chkconfig configuration for the auxiliary vs primary servers - Rough firewall config for primary/auxiliary servers The top of each script - after the GPL - has an extensive comment explaining what it does. And after that, you can scroll down to the 'main' block -- I find both very readable. The scripts are here if you don't have a checkout http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/xs-config;a=tree;f=fsroot.olpc.img/etc/sysconfig/olpc-scripts;h=dada76a2869dc95c5f538adfa45a2e538dc1d998;hb=HEAD The 3 scripts make sense to me - - I would attack it with a get-to-work-stable-on-f9 focus, roughly: - Can we make the networking configuration work in a stable manner on F9? Do we need to hook into the events infrastructure so when an ethernet cable gets plugged into an if we do the right thing? Could we make it so that we autodetect and configure an AA on usb connection? - Can we allow additional MAC prefix preferences to be read from an optional config file so that a NOC team can override things easily? - Can we consolidate the code / remove duplication? (trivial ;-) ) - Can we remove the service mgmt from it? :-) Jerry, does that help? It is meant as a complement while reading the src... BTW, I am tracking this on https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7672 cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
