This combines monitoring with configuration. Perhaps a clearer split
at the top ?
Some monitoring should be open (as long as privacy considerations are
taken into account).
I see no need to configure iptables. We are open by default, we
only run
iptables to redirect for transparent proxy
This problem is believed to be the same as #5459.
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5459
On Apr 16, 2008, at 10:23 AM, sulochan acharya wrote:
Do you know whether it's just a UI thing, or does it mean that the
antenna is still scanning? How can we tell if it is? (and is the
scannign costly
And has been directly reported as #6872
On Apr 18, 2008, at 5:11 PM, John Watlington wrote:
This problem is believed to be the same as #5459.
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5459
On Apr 16, 2008, at 10:23 AM, sulochan acharya wrote:
Do you know whether it's just a UI thing, or does it mean
I learned more about the network built by the MED in Peru for their
schools. Each school is in its own VLAN, and cannot route to the
other schools, only to the Internet and to MED servers.
They have good economic reasons for encouraging this, but
it means that inter-school collaboration will
On Apr 24, 2008, at 10:57 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:38 PM, John Watlington
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Proposed change to the hardware spec:
From one to four access points may use an simpler switch,
connected to the server over a 100 Mb/s link. From five
On Apr 25, 2008, at 8:29 AM, Stefan Reitz wrote:
Hi Y'all,
On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 14:57 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:38 PM, John Watlington
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Proposed change to the hardware spec:
From one to four access points may use an simpler
On Apr 29, 2008, at 7:00 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
2008/4/30 Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 22:41, Martin Langhoff wrote:
If those same machines could be ordered with RAM ranging from 512 to
2GB... instant love ;-) -- add a fanless ext USB drive enclosure and
On May 2, 2008, at 12:57 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
Testing installation of a new build today with a hand-me-down Shuttle
machine I got a strange error from the Libertas driver.
libertas: version magic '2.6.23.1-21.fc7 SMP mod_unload 686 4KSTACKS '
should be '2.6.23.1-21.fc7 SMP mod_unload
On May 6, 2008, at 4:12 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:38 AM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Dennis correctly debugged the problem. This is due to the
attempt to produce a build for 586 machines, hoping to
run on the VIA C3.
that's great to hear
On May 7, 2008, at 10:28 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:19 AM, Berkowitz Andrew (Project Connect)
Greetings from New York.
G'day mate from New Zealand!
Although the short hostname, schoolserver, has stayed the same,
the domain
has changed from 00b000.nycboe.org to
Build 163 has finally been smoke tested on a few platforms
and released. This should be used for any new installations.
This is a bug fix release of build 160, to ensure that ejabberd
collaboration works properly when the school server can't be
resolved using the DNS root servers (most cases !)
On May 8, 2008, at 5:15 PM, Andrew Berkowitz wrote:
Or, how do I just wipe out the mnesia database and start over?
I believe
rm -r /var/lib/ejabberd/*
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I was very explicit in my instructions:
1) Remove the package.
2) Remove the database.
3) Install the package.
Installing the package probably rebuilds the database.
If you re-install without removing the old database, the
re-install seems to re-use the old database.
John
On May 12, 2008, at
Nothing but ejabberd needs to be uninstalled. Use the --nodeps
to force this.
Just reinstalling the package doesn't rebuild the database.
You will have to manually clean out the database before
reinstalling...
I have no experience with uninstalling xs-pkgs and xs-config.
I doubt it would
Can anybody suggest the cause for this ?
I haven't seen this problem before.
wad
Begin forwarded message:
From: Berkowitz Andrew (Project Connect)
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Date: May 14, 2008 11:14:11 AM EDT
To: John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject
and time zone via a blue
background
text-mode UI.
-Original Message-
From: Martin Langhoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:12 PM
To: Berkowitz Andrew (Project Connect)
Cc: John Watlington; server-devel
Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Fwd: Installing 1.63
On May 15, 2008, at 9:31 PM, Anna wrote:
Hi All,
I've been at this for days now and am only emailing out of
desperation.
Hi, Anna. Good to hear from you again!
Please don't wait until you are desperate to drop us a note.
I'm on server build 161 (the 163 install didn't work on my
On May 15, 2008, at 10:56 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 2:50 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Ouch. That sounds familiar from early days of debugging the install.
It sounds like your Frankenmachine is a 586, and needs the restricted
kernel I put in build
On May 19, 2008, at 6:18 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Berkowitz Andrew (Project Connect)
The installation was perfect with the full Fedora 7 installation.
Is it possible to install all of OLPC's customizations on top of a
stock
Fedora installation?
Yes.
/ejabberd.cfg log_path
/var/log/ejabberd/ejabberd.log -sasl sasl_error_logger
{file,/var/log/ejabberd/sasl.log} -mnesia dir
/var/lib/ejabberd/spool -kernel inetrc /etc/ejabberd/
ejabberd.inetrc
-noshell -noinput
-Original Message-
From: John Watlington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent
still work?
There lie uncharted waters.
Dennis might be able to help with that answer.
I suspect that the answer is probably yes, given the limited
number of packages you are trying.
Thank you
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Sent: Tuesday, May 20
On Jun 2, 2008, at 7:16 AM, James Cameron wrote:
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 08:22:40PM +1000, Martin Langhoff wrote:
That makes bit more sense. A bad pci connection... but I'm not sure
why it didn't come up with the right ip addr. I do wonder whether the
fedora tools have anything to
On May 30, 2008, at 5:34 PM, Anna wrote:
The other weird device thing involved the second NIC. The first
one gets recognized as eth0 just fine. However, the second one is
seen as dummy0. I put the hardware address for the second NIC in
both /etc/sysconfig/olpc-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 and
On Jun 2, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) wrote:
Hi Martin,
Thanks a lot for the review. I copied your reply to the Uruguay
edublog
volunteer list: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I will use that list to work with end users and for internal project
tracking. That said, anyone can join. It's
On Jun 3, 2008, at 7:42 AM, John Watlington wrote:
Anybody out there want to help get a school server running on Debian ?
We need a debian package for the identity manager:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/School_Identity_Manager
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/idmgr
(Just to forestall any
.
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:47 AM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
There has been some questions about what hardware Uruguay is using
for school servers.
They are placing a second tender right now, but the first batch of
servers were:
(An IBM x3105)
1.6 - 1.8 GHz AMD processor
2
On Jun 5, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Tony Pearson wrote:
Uruguay = EduBlog/Ceibal/Greg Smith. I am building the server to
Greg's request, so whatever he is now calling this project that is
what it is.
Uruguay == Ceibal
Uruguay != EduBlog
Uruguay != Greg Smith
Your statement worries me, as
On Jun 22, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Christopher Niemöller wrote:
Hi,
I was playing around with some embedded computing and rugged hardware
and got some questions.
Whats the target price for the school server?
Around 500 USD for a server plus 500GB disk.
Networking (access points and switches)
On Jul 3, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Tim Moody wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Tim Moody [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Server-devel] eth0 statii IP
The script which performs
I think Jerry misunderstood your question.
You can assign the AP an address from the range 172.18.1.1 to
172.18.1.254.
This is within the address range assigned to eth1 (in /etc/sysconfig/
network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1)
but outside of the range that DHCP is set to provide on that
interface
I've figured out more about why my first install of 0.4 went so badly.
For some reason, the network interfaces weren't configured properly
on first boot (even though the files were in the right places).
In conjuction with having the cable to my wired net plugged into the
LAN port, nothing was
On Aug 26, 2008, at 4:47 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
That sounds like network_config crashed on you. network_config is
responsible for creating /etc/resolv.conf.in and then domain_config
will do the rest. On xs-0.4, we call domain_config at install time
(and it defaults to random.xs.l.o).
You keep pushing for centrally hosted school servers.
Are you sure you don't work for the phone company ?
Again, unless you have a 100 Mbit connection from the
school to the upstream ISP, you will need something with
a disk and a significant amount of memory present in the
school.
I don't
be
stolen. But it does put the server in the hands of a presumably
trusted individual in the community.
-walter
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Sameer Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:00 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
You keep pushing for centrally hosted
Until Sugar has a better model for collaboration, anything over about
500 users is moot. (Thanks for testing it all the way up to 2K users).
The problem is that the laptop UI will try to show all the users on the
server in the neighborhood view... Can you try to connect an XO
to the server
Currently only through ssh.
I assume you mean an rsync daemon, serving up the xs images ?
I think that could be arranged...
wad
On Feb 12, 2009, at 6:53 PM, Sameer Verma wrote:
Does xs-dev.laptop.org support rsync?
Sameer
--
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information
If you aren't going to place school servers in the actual schools,
and insist on
centralizing them, the hardware recommended by Sameer is a good idea.
My argument has always been that you want local web caching and content,
and that an XS shouldn't be that much more expensive than the above
On Mar 12, 2009, at 9:55 AM, Hamilton Chua wrote:
Hello,
I would like to ask what the plan is for allowing Sugar running on
hardware other than an XO to register with an XS.
It is encouraged.
I had a quick look at /usr/bin/registration-server in the XS and
schoolserver.py in a Sugar
The OLPC web-based git interface was changed, due to security
holes in the previous one. Unfortunately, links into it still haven't
been changed.
On Mar 20, 2009, at 1:17 AM, Sameer Verma wrote:
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/xs-livecd;a=blob;f=util/
mkusbinstall;hb=HEAD
Git it in
On Apr 27, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
Anna wrote:
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Reuben K. Caron
reu...@laptop.org wrote:
As far as limiting the internet connection to authorized XOs,
that's an
issue we're probably going to run into at some point once we
broaden
On Jul 16, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Sameer Verma wrote:
Any documentation on what lives in /library and how to make it useful?
The idea behind /library was that the school server needed someplace to
place large collections of content and user data.
While some people have talked about backing up
You are correct. Since your backup script by definition needs to
read ALL data,
regardless of ownership or permissions, you will have to run it with
superuser
priviledges.
Why don't you consider using the rsync server, instead of invoking it
through a user ?
John
On Sep 14, 2009, at
School server installations using active antennas are
currently non-existant.
As the school server really wants to be a gateway, you will need
two network interfaces on your laptop. You will need to connect
one of those to a WiFi AP for the XO(s) to connect to.
Theoretically, you should be
Remove the cron script for callhome, located in /etc/cron.d.
It isn't needed for your closely monitored setup, and if needed
should be revamped.
Cheers,
wad
On Feb 23, 2010, at 4:32 PM, Anna wrote:
XS 0.6 has been sending me a ton of these emails. Is there a fix
for this?
--
It would be interesting to hear what the remaining hurdles are.
The Kirkwood ARM processor in the guruplug should be well
supported by the current Fedora release --- this may be mostly
a matter of moving to an F12 base.
My main concern with the guruplug would be the external USB
disks
On Mar 2, 2010, at 9:48 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:40 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org
wrote:
It would be interesting to hear what the remaining hurdles are.
Not many. There are good bootable images for F11/F12 on ARM. Current
XS is on F9, for which I haven't
On Mar 15, 2010, at 12:06 AM, James Cameron wrote:
I don't know XS very well, but if ejabberd is all you need why not
take
the ejabberd configuration from XS sources and deploy that on an
otherwise vanilla instance?
And indeed, the XS services are intended for such reuse. I'm not sure
On Mar 15, 2010, at 1:18 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:09 AM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org
wrote:
And indeed, the XS services are intended for such reuse. I'm not
sure
how many patches to the stock ejabberd are still needed...
It's not so much the patches
When you turn on offline mode, you are just handling
the HTTP requests. There are other network operations
which have to happen before hand which probably aren't
being offlined properly.
What happens to DNS in the offline scenario ? If your clients
are all properly pointed at the school
increment the trace level using the remote name daemon controller:
Something like:
sudo rndc trace 5
Andy
On Mar 16, 2010, at 11:06 PM, John Watlington wrote:
When you turn on offline mode, you are just handling
the HTTP requests. There are other network operations
which have to happen
You don't really want to disable or move the idmgr.
All the laptop software builds will try to contact it in
order to register themselves. Moving it would require
doing a special software build for all the XO laptops in your
school, and providing a separate update path
wad
On Mar 21,
On Mar 30, 2010, at 2:10 AM, David Mul wrote:
Hi,
my name is David Mul and I'm working with David Leeming on the OLPC project
in Papua New Guinea. I was trying to login to the XS server using terminal
activity on the XO through ssh but it kept giving me this message Permission
denied
On Apr 9, 2010, at 8:38 PM, John Watlington wrote:
Last time I looked into this, apache's proxy was solely a reverse proxy,
and useless for our purposes. That is no longer true, but the associated
mod_cache module still appears to be experimental.
In any case, squid currently provides
This is the wrong list for such a question,
it is for questions about the school server.
Your question should be posted to de...@lists.laptop.org,
where the right people are more likely to see it.
If you aren't a member of either list, the message is
held for moderation (and our moderators are
From the intertubes, it looks like the AAO has an Atheros 5K chipset.
Lots of problems reported with the drivers, but people have gotten it
to work with Fedora 9. E.g.:
http://www.mail-archive.com/ath5k-us...@lists.ath5k.org/msg00131.html
Good luck,
wad
On Apr 10, 2010, at 10:02 PM, Andra
I was under the impression that this required 802.11F
capable APs to work properly.
But I'm no expert. Anyone better informed care to educate
me ?
Cheers,
wad
On Aug 3, 2010, at 11:48 PM, James Cameron wrote:
Different OLPC OS builds present access points with same essid in
different ways.
On Aug 26, 2010, at 8:04 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
StPepper,
forget about anaconda :-) I want to _reduce_ as much as reasonable
what we do in anaconda/kickstart.
Let's focus on this:
- some stuff in current kickstart %post won't be needed for xs-0.7
- some stuff in current
On Dec 15, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Anna wrote:
Sorry this is so long, but I thought I'd post this in case someone else
needed something similar. Also, any suggestions to make this more efficient
are more than welcome.
How I set up an emergency use XS on an XO-1
Since I run a public XS on a
The best iptables hack like this I've seen routed extraneous
connections through a transparent web proxy which flipped
all images (swapped left and right).
Cheers,
wad
On Jan 12, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Jerry Vonau wrote:
On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 10:03 -0600, Anna wrote:
I like to leave the AP open
callhome was a quick hack.
I would suggest doing it right instead of recycling it.
Cheers,
wad
On Mar 8, 2011, at 4:21 AM, Sameer Verma wrote:
Found the callhome script on the XS (0.6). Has anyone used it in the
field? Is it documented/recommended? I'm looking at it as an
alternative to
On Mar 27, 2011, at 11:28 PM, Guillermo Narvaez wrote:
Reuben,
The limitations of this equipment are 60 client per AP, we are using 50 or 55
clients per equipment. This is a dedicated equipment so it need an external
controller.
With the frequency issue, the APs of the same school are
On Jan 27, 2012, at 1:45 PM, HALL,Brian C wrote:
Good Day All,
I am currently using the 1.5 XO at a couple of schools. I am able to connect
to the school server and hence access moodle instance on the server itself.
However i am unable to browse the internet from the XO.
Can you
On Jan 30, 2012, at 12:40 PM, George Hunt wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm new to this list.
I met Tony Anderson in Haiti, and again at the San Francisco OLPC Summit in
late 2011. He prevailed upon me to spend some time trying to figure out how
to rebase XS on a more recent Fedora Core.
I
On Feb 28, 2012, at 1:05 PM, Holt wrote:
Clarif: port 80 is (unfort) forwarded thru the XS, for all laptops that
connect over Wifi.
Traffic across all other ports (incl 443 = https) is thankfully blocked,
though I've no idea why/how unfortunately ;)
Sounds like your problem is squid.
How is this work going ?
On a somewhat related note, I was building a firewall/serve box from an XO-1.5
running os883, and ran into the problem that the stock kernel doesn't have
enough of the netfilter options enabled (specifically
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REJECT)
to support either the firewall
On Feb 29, 2012, at 10:05 AM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote:
The example DHCP configuration linked likely should be updated to support
multiple MAC address ranges.
In addition to the 00:17:C4 prefix mentioned in that script, newer XOs may
come with Wifi cards that have a 20:7C:8F prefix, and
Why not an XO-1.75 ?
On Apr 10, 2012, at 8:04 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
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
Just a quick reminder that we have XO-1.75 production units available for
people who want to work on XS on ARM. Just fill out the form at:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program/Project_proposal_form
and list XS on ARM XO as the project. If you have any problems getting
one this
On Jun 4, 2012, at 7:30 PM, John Watlington wrote:
Adam, something is wrong with those addresses.
The 18.nn.nn.nn subnet is owned by MIT. You shouldn't be
using any of them.Perhaps you meant 172.18.nn.nn ?
And I never got around to the second part of the comment.
eth0 (the WAN port
On Jun 4, 2012, at 8:35 PM, John Watlington wrote:
I suspect that your ISP is assigning 172.18.196.1 to the
XS, which is then confused as to where packets destined
for 172.18.xx.xx should be routed.
eth0 and the other interfaces on the XS should be in separate
subnets.
BTW
On Jun 6, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
Those of us familiar with setting up school networks (server + switch
+ APs) in some of our deployments will be familiar with the
occasional loss of hardware, due to surges in the low quality
electrical supply or whatever, even when the system
Just to clarify a comment that James made:
On XO-1, the qualification of the SD card interface was done by Quanta.
They seemed to think it worked fine. When I started doing extensive
testing of SD cards in preparation for using them in XO-1.5, I discovered
that some XO-1s did not have a
On Jan 24, 2014, at 6:36 PM, Adam Holt wrote:
We've relied on this for many years on XO-1s and XO-1.75s (etc) to ensure
small XO servers auto-boot after the inevitable power failures -- and yet
today it (apparently) no longer works.
Is it possible this does not work on XO-4s, or are we
George, thanks for doing this!
On Apr 22, 2014, at 11:48 AM, George Hunt wrote:
Just a small step, but XSCE 5.0 now installs on Cubox. Start with Tim's
image, and comment out ajenti in roles/core/meta/main.yml. I re-rolled
xs-moodle, ds-backup to use cronie rather than vixie-cron, and
Just a quick question: has anybody gotten the XOs to collaborate
properly with an XMPP server other than ejabberd ?
wad
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