Re: [Server-devel] Newbie problems

2009-07-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Sameer Vermasve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Not to bikeshed or anything, but I was curious about the reasons behind pgsql. Several posts in the list archive tell the story :-) -- the gist (but notthe full story, do search the archive!) is: - behaviour under

Re: [Server-devel] ejabberd and DNS hurdles (was Re: moodle howto?)

2009-07-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Deds Castillod...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Today I installed 0.6d2 from scratch. I noticed a few problems: 1. Basic ejabberd Configuration went smoothly. However, I got stuck in Setup Shared Roster Groups for ejabberd. ejabberd is not listening on port 5280:

Re: [Server-devel] ejabberd and DNS hurdles

2009-07-23 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 08:18:14AM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: Sameer's suggestion to set forwarders is very good, recommended. Yes, this worked for me. It would be more ideal to include /var/run/ppp/resolv.conf into named-xs.conf dynamically, but I am happy enough.

Re: [Server-devel] ejabberd and DNS hurdles (was Re: moodle howto?)

2009-07-23 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 08:18:14AM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: For xs0.6 you should _not_ configure ejabberd. I've posted the (much simpler!) instructions for 0.6on this list about 2 months ago. Google has excellent coverage of the archive ... ;-) For future reference, it appears Martin was

Re: [Server-devel] ejabberd and DNS hurdles

2009-07-23 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 04:09:22PM -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: This might get fixed by doing a forwarders for DNS. I have to do this when I use the XS on campus. http://www.mail-archive.com/server-devel@lists.laptop.org/msg02381.html Added to the end of Network Configuration: If you can only

Re: [Server-devel] ejabberd and DNS hurdles (was Re: moodle howto?)

2009-07-23 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 05:37:11PM +0800, Deds Castillo wrote: On Thursday 23 July 2009, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 08:18:14AM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: For xs0.6 you should _not_ configure ejabberd. I've posted the (much simpler!) instructions for 0.6on this

Re: [Server-devel] ejabberd and DNS hurdles

2009-07-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Joshua N Pritikinjpriti...@pobox.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 04:09:22PM -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: This might get fixed by doing a forwarders for DNS. I have to do this when I use the XS on campus.

Re: [Server-devel] ejabberd and DNS hurdles (was Re: moodle howto?)

2009-07-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Joshua N Pritikinjpriti...@pobox.com wrote: If I understood Martin correctly, he is saying that nothing listening on 5280 is expected and correct behavior. Correct :-) If for other reasons you want the web interface, then the block in the config file is just

[Server-devel] Access Point configuration

2009-07-23 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
I had my first experience of bricking a wireless router today. Fortunately, I had a backup router on hand. The steps listed in AP Configuration seem incomplete. Today I flashed my secondary WRT54GL with DD-WRT and loaded factory defaults. Make sure that the access point is NOT running as a

Re: [Server-devel] ejabberd and DNS hurdles (was Re: moodle howto?)

2009-07-23 Thread Deds Castillo
On Thursday 23 July 2009, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Joshua N Pritikinjpriti...@pobox.com wrote: If I understood Martin correctly, he is saying that nothing listening on 5280 is expected and correct behavior. Correct :-) If for other reasons you want the web

Re: [Server-devel] Access Point configuration

2009-07-23 Thread Marten Vijn
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 15:44 +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: I had my first experience of bricking a wireless router today. Fortunately, I had a backup router on hand. The steps listed in AP Configuration seem incomplete. Today I flashed my secondary WRT54GL with DD-WRT and loaded factory

Re: [Server-devel] Access Point configuration

2009-07-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Joshua N Pritikinjpriti...@pobox.com wrote: 2. To not run a DHCP Server means that I should turn off DHCP completely? I only see options for DHCP Server and DHCP Forwarding. I assume I want DHCP Forwarding? Should I turn off DNSMasq? - yes, turn off DHCP

[Server-devel] pppd restarting mysteriously

2009-07-23 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
As I mentioned, I have a CDMA EVDO modem for Internet access. This works fine Ubuntu and Debian laptops. On the schoolserver, pppd restarts within a minute for no reason. I looked at the options for wvdial and turned off anything suspicious. I don't think wvdial is implicated. It looks like

Re: [Server-devel] pppd restarting mysteriously

2009-07-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Joshua N Pritikinjpriti...@pobox.com wrote: I looked at the options for wvdial and turned off anything suspicious. I don't think wvdial is implicated. It looks like something crazy with pppd. If I enable debug in /etc/ppp/options, will I see something extra in

Re: [Server-devel] Access Point configuration

2009-07-23 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:38:27PM +0200, Marten Vijn wrote: You can de-brick with soldering a tll to serial converter on the board on of the linksys. Then you can have a serial line to bios/dd-wrt. In the bios you can enable tftp to reflash the linksys over network. The are clear recovery

Re: [Server-devel] Access Point configuration

2009-07-23 Thread Marten Vijn
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 18:59 +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:38:27PM +0200, Marten Vijn wrote: You can de-brick with soldering a tll to serial converter on the board on of the linksys. Then you can have a serial line to bios/dd-wrt. In the bios you can enable tftp

[Server-devel] XS Registration

2009-07-23 Thread Miguel Salazar
Hi! I'm trying to set-up an XS as a backup server for XO's. I've been through the wiki and the first step to do this states that I need to register the XO in the XS. Could anyone tell me how to accomplish this? I've looked around and still haven't found a way to do this. Any help will be

Re: [Server-devel] XS Registration

2009-07-23 Thread Dave Bauer
You right click on the XO icon and choose Register from the dropdown menu. Dave On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Miguel Salazarmiguelsalaz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I'm trying to set-up an XS as a backup server for XO's. I've been through the wiki and the first step to do this states that I

Re: [Server-devel] pppd restarting mysteriously

2009-07-23 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:32:37AM +1000, James Cameron wrote: The symptom is that your pppd receives an LCP Configuration Request from the modem that attempts to begin authentication all over again. pppd handles this (correctly) by shutting down the link. My analysis of this when I was