Re: [Server-devel] New XS-0.6d2

2009-06-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 1:55 AM, tkk...@nurturingasia.com wrote: BTW is the XS already a ejabber server by default? When I type ejabberdctl status I get this message: Node ejabb...@schoolserver is started. Status: started ejabberd is not running If you 1 - install the XS distro 2 - run

Re: [Server-devel] (Mostly) Enforcing Google Image Safe Search With Squid

2009-06-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Anna ascho...@gmail.com wrote: I just installed the latest XS 0.6d2, and in addition to setting up OpenDNS in named-xs.conf to do the usual filtering, hunted around to find an easy way to enforce safe Google image searches, as that seems to be an issue. I see

Re: [Server-devel] Server configuration for static IP instead of DHCP

2009-06-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Sameer Vermasve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Have you tried adding your ISP's DNS server(s) to the /etc/named-xs.conf file as forwarders? Yep! that's the 2 steps needed for a static IP address on eth0 - an ifcfg-eth0-local file as Rodolfo's example - upstream DNS

Re: [Server-devel] Server configuration for static IP instead of DHCP

2009-06-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:24 PM, tkk...@nurturingasia.com wrote: Thanks for all the advice and help. I went to sleep after setting it without success ... and came back after work at it again - when I ping it works!! Maybe the lesson is to wait for the network stuff to sort things out and be

Re: [Server-devel] Server configuration for static IP instead of DHCP

2009-06-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 5:25 PM, tkk...@nurturingasia.com wrote: Maybe the WIKI need an update that include ... take a break and come back for the cache stuff Probably a strategic reboot is better, faster and clearer. You do need it once you've set the domain. If you 1 - install 2 - set the

Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall link broken?

2009-06-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Sameer Vermasve...@sfsu.edu wrote: I am using mkusbinstall to install xs-0.6d on to a USB stick. I am doing this on Ubuntu 9.04 which does not ship udevinfo. I get an error of command not found. Ubuntu 9.04 ships udevadm.

Re: [Server-devel] binding ejabberd on XS

2009-06-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Vamsi Krishna Davulurivamsi.davul...@gmail.com wrote: I'm following this guide http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software, and i blindly changed the binding address to the one given in the link, I changed it again to localhost.localdomain and it gives me

Re: [Server-devel] Firing up ejabberd

2009-06-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Vamsi Krishna Davulurivamsi.davul...@gmail.com wrote: p.s. the burnt version of 0.6b doesnt work, I tried with two writers just to be sure. - did you check the sha1sum? - what problem are you having _exactly_? m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com

Re: [Server-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: An interesting project I stumbled across

2009-06-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Frederick Grosefgr...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.wizzydigital.org/index.html Wizzy Digital Courier is right in the middle of my longer-term plans. A quick google shows a few pages I've written in the wiki about it. Not that I'm original. When I joined OLPC, Jim

Re: [Server-devel] the first user is admin moodle policy

2009-06-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Daniel Draked...@laptop.org wrote: The teachers already had their XOs at this point The teachers have XOs and the kids don't yet. Correct? I think this is basically a conflict between the case when you are installing 1 XS (in which case what you are describing

Re: [Server-devel] Upgrade to 0.6

2009-06-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Dave Bauerd...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Is it possible to upgrade from 0.5.2 to 0.6 yet or is it necessary to do a new install to test it? Hmmm. I haven't tested an upgrade. I usually - develop/test updating via yum rpm - when getting ready to release, first

Re: [Server-devel] Saludos desde Nicaragua, OLPC SERVER

2009-06-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Rodolfo D. Arce S.rodolfoa...@eyuhoo.com wrote: \ The main installation doesn't filter anything.. i think :S..it does use a squid proxy, but no blocking Yes. Strategies for filtering have been discussed on the list before. Using google to search the archives is

Re: [Server-devel] suggestion

2009-06-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
Have you tried searching the archives? Fedora-11 and F-11 are good keywords ;-) m On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Kevin Benavideskbenavi...@americancollege.edu.ni wrote: Well the information provided is very helpful but what I trying to say is that if you need to install the server vercion

Re: [Server-devel] Upgrade to 0.6

2009-06-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Reuben K. Caronreu...@laptop.org wrote: Glad to hear you found the root cause. If we can come up with one or two simple commands for the OLPCorps teams to type at the command line to fix this and then enable squid; I'm sure they will be glad to do so. It had

Re: [Server-devel] Moodle/Server configuration for static IP external access

2009-06-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 3:03 PM, tkk...@nurturingasia.com wrote: Now with the a fixed internal IP I am able to map the actual external IP with it for external access. Change the apache httpd-xs.conf to listen to 192.168.1.30:80 as well as 172.18.0.1:80 Loaded the pafm application and external

Re: [Server-devel] Moodle/Server configuration for static IP external access

2009-06-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 3:34 PM, tkk...@nurturingasia.com wrote: What settings do I need to configure for this? Thanks You can shoot yourself in the foot, but I'm not sure how much I'll help ;-) The instructions start... find the DNS server in the 'outer' network... cheers, m --

Re: [Server-devel] Moodle/Server configuration for static IP external access

2009-06-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Dave Bauerdave.ba...@gmail.com wrote: Most Moodle installs are available to the internet. Does it really make sense to rely only on Moodle being on the internal network to provide security? You are right, and a lot of my pre-OLPC work has been in making the

Re: [Server-devel] XS Moodle admin login

2009-06-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:22 PM, tkk...@nurturingasia.com wrote: I had no problems before with the admin and password (from /etc/moodle/passwd) combination to get admin access - so that I could install language pack, etc However I notice recently with new test few XS machines I am uable to

Re: [Server-devel] XS Moodle admin login

2009-06-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Reuben K. Caronreu...@laptop.org wrote: I have experienced this with every 0.6d2 install. The passchange.php method mentioned in this link did NOT work:  http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=18103 Right. I owe you guys an apology. This is related to a

Re: [Server-devel] Upgrade to 0.6

2009-06-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Reuben K. Caronreu...@laptop.org wrote: Anyone have any luck fixing this? I have found the guilty file. Somehow I have been running some of my dev XSs with a local change that fixes the problem. Will prepare a new xs-config for your folks in a few hs. In the

Re: [Server-devel] Upgrade to 0.6

2009-06-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Martin Langhoffmartin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Will prepare a new xs-config for your folks in a few hs. done, tested, published. Upgrade using yum --enablerepo=olpcxs-testing install xs-config or otherwise grab

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] Teacher admin panels on content we are sugarizing

2009-06-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Caroline Meekscarol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: My understanding is that both GCompris and Teachermate have teacher admin functionality that let teachers view student progress etc. Is there a roadmap or plan for how we are going to bring that functionality

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] Teacher admin panels on content we are sugarizing

2009-06-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Caroline Meekscarol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: I had a feeling that our Moodle people didn't even know this work needed to And you were right :-) Gregdek was pushing hard for a hacking session on integrating Journal entries (let me call them documents for a sec

Re: [Server-devel] Help-laptop XO

2009-06-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Kevin, You might need to get a developer key but that is something that should be done once for the whole pilot or deployment. Which deployment is this part of? Who did you get the XOs from? The request for devkeys or a keyjector must come from the person that is coordinating the deployment.

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.6 on SD card

2009-07-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Sameer Vermasve...@sfsu.edu wrote: I finally managed to find enough time to install the xs on a SD card and boot an XO from it. I am impressed! It took a bit longer to go Glad to hear that! through the first boot (I presume its because of the SD card) but

Re: [Server-devel] a sample moodle course

2009-07-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Sameer Vermasve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Does anyone have a sample moodle course for say literacy or math that can be used as an example on the school server? I don't, but the place to ask is the k-12 forum in moodle.org so that's what I did:

Re: [Server-devel] ARM based XS ?

2009-07-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Martin Langhoffmartin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Excellent news -- keep us posted on server-devel. If after some testing you think it's viable, I'll get one of those boards too. You can see what binary packages we have that will need a rebuild by looking at:

Re: [Server-devel] Automatic @online@ shared roster

2009-07-06 Thread Martin Langhoff
You'll want to comment out the code. Will be in one of (under /var/www/moodle/web, in order of likelyhood) - auth/olpcxs/auth.php (look for a 'cron' function) - local/lib.php (look for a cron function...) - admin/cron.php Sorry for the vagueness. Away from the relevant sourcecode ATM. m

Re: [Server-devel] Gadget on XS

2009-07-06 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Walter Benderwalter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: We plan to set up a server tomorrow at the Gardner School. Can you point to those instructions you followed to your success? The question is, IMO: what does gadget do better? The best I understand is that when there are

Re: [Server-devel] Automatic @online@ shared roster

2009-07-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Dave Bauerd...@solutiongrove.com wrote: I am just doing this to try to understand what gadget is doing. Since XS doesn't use gadget in its specific config, it is just experimental for my own education. Well, I'm curious too, so keep us posted ;-) m --

Re: [Server-devel] IP addressing + XO MPP connectivity

2009-07-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:03 AM, John Watlingtonw...@laptop.org wrote: The XS server software should set up any mesh interfaces to accept the anycast MAC address, but this might have been lost in more recent builds. Interesting. When was this last seen to work? I can do some quick archeology

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] GPA XS Report

2009-07-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Anurag Goelagoe...@gmail.com wrote: We booted several computers with SoaS and changed the network settings from the default (jabber.sugarlabs.org) to the IP address on the XS. After doing this, the computers in the computer lab still would That is a workaround

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] GPA XS Report

2009-07-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Caroline Meekssolutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: no, we are still just trying to get the machines in the lab to see the Jabber Server in the lab via the server setting in the control panel. H. On Sugar 0.82 Register achieves exactly the same (plus 2 more things)

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] GPA XS Report

2009-07-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Dave Bauerdave.ba...@gmail.com wrote: OK, we can workaround this two ways, Use schoolserver as the jabber server name in the settings then 1) set the IP in /etc/hosts as a quick hack to make sure things work 2) set up the SoaS to use the built in DNS on the

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] GPA collaboration Issues - keepalive theory

2009-07-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Caroline Meekscarol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: The other theory we are working on is that something is not set to long enough in keepalive The logs we saw earlier were clearly of a domain vs IP address mismatch. Did you try the fix that I've suggested

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] GPA School Visit report for Tuesday July 14

2009-07-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Caroline Meekssolutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: As Greg said we finally got collaboration working! The problem was that we had cloned the owner.key and owner.key.pub.  The fix was to delete those before cloning and on existing sticks delete them and restart.

Re: [Server-devel] logging performance

2009-07-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Sameer Vermasve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Any suggestions on how to log data on RAM and CPU usage on the XS? I've looked at mem.py and top variants, but I want something that logs at x intervals to a file that I can pull into a spreadsheet. I have munin running on the

Re: [Server-devel] /library partition

2009-07-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Dave Bauerd...@solutiongrove.com wrote: I am not sure if there is any documentation: - pgsql-xs the postgresql database for Moodle (and any other Pg DB we might add :-) ) - users which I think are home directories for the registered XOs which will contain

Re: [Server-devel] testing XS-on-XO

2009-07-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Sameer Vermasve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Just added some notes from a test we did today at OLPC-SF's meeting. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS-on-XO Will add more notes as we go. Cool. The take home message is Moodle is dog-slow, I guess :-) -- the problem there is

Re: [Server-devel] [IAEP] [support-gang] An Opportunity to bring vital content to the Sugar/XO world - Needs technical help.

2009-07-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Caroline Meekssolutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: Or, is this something you think our volunteer programmers should try to reverse-engineer and create for Sugar and the XO? Yes, or more likely for the XS.  My first thought on how to approach it is to rewrite the

Re: [Server-devel] testing XS-on-XO

2009-07-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Sameer Vermasve...@sfsu.edu wrote: I'd like to load test Moodle+Pg. Maybe Wen(@SF State) has some scripts to load test it? I know he's been working on that for a while now...cc'd. You can get through a very simple test just by - enabling profiling (see the

Re: [Server-devel] Fwd: [IAEP] Sharing Images in the neighborhood - Buddy Tag

2009-07-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Caroline Meekscarol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Hi Server people, I wanted to make sure the server people saw this Buddy Tagging proposal as it might be something that could be more easily accomplished with Moodle's help. Good point. I don't know Kartik

Re: [Server-devel] fixing the installation instructions

2009-07-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Daniel Draked...@laptop.org wrote: I just had a go at fixing the page: http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=XS_Installing_Softwarediff=212755oldid=212729 Please review. Thanks! Makes sense. (I've been away for a few days as you've probably noticed. Now I am

Re: [Server-devel] moodle howto?

2009-07-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
Very stale! You should just install the XS-0.6 betas I've published, Moodle in included there and works out-of-the-box automagically. Did you edit the XS install pages recently, perhaps? cheers, m On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Joshua N Pritikinjpriti...@pobox.com wrote: I found

Re: [Server-devel] Newbie problems

2009-07-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Varun Arorafuturegeni...@gmail.com wrote: Hey XS Dev team, Hey Varun! I am a ICT consultant working in the South Pacific Islands. Sorry if you guys are tired of reading newbie problems. But I had a serious concern with installation of XS in a pilot

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 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

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

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] can I groupinstall 'X Window System'?

2009-07-26 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Joshua N Pritikinjpriti...@pobox.com wrote: We have an LCD projector. Since we don't have a USB-VGA adapter yet, I would like to drive projector with the schoolserver (using VNCLauncher ssvnc). The groupinstall includes dnsmasq and NetworkManager. Is it safe

Re: [Server-devel] Fwd: Simple Digital Library Index System

2009-07-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
This sounds interesting. It is something I was hoping to implement somehow, using IMS-CP (or similar) plus a repository scheme copied from the Debian apt repository format, or the yum repo format. Both repo formats are fantastic for this, very rsync, http and cache friendly, super-scalable and

Re: [Server-devel] XS backup/restore feature

2009-07-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Sameer Vermasve...@sfsu.edu wrote: tar --numeric-owner should work, right? heh! no no, the reverse. What tar does is fantastic, and saves us a lot of work. I *thought* tar could only store numeric uids/gids and that we'd have to write code to keep them in sync.

Re: [Server-devel] XS automount design

2009-07-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Daniel Draked...@laptop.org wrote: It seems a little strange to me that the XS scripts that process files on USB sticks do not unmount the disk after use. In fact they don't even mount the disk in read-only mode. Do we encourage users to login as root and

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.6 and network_config

2009-07-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Daniel Draked...@laptop.org wrote: One of the messages I saw suggested to me that it is necessary to run network_config (in addition to domain_config) while setting up XS-0.6. Is that true, or is domain_config still sufficient for the single-XS-per-school

Re: [Server-devel] XS build setup

2009-07-31 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Jerry Vonaujvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Have a look at mkslim in the git repo. Exactly, though functionally your ISO will be the same. Hoping the toolchain will work better on F11 :-) cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server

Re: [Server-devel] XS automount design

2009-07-31 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Daniel Draked...@laptop.org wrote: It works fine and the usbmount code is already crafted to cleanly handle such a situation. how do you feel about this 98-umount mount.d trigger? umount $UM_MOUNTPOINT log notice Unmounted exit log notice Failed to unmount

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.6 md5sum -- 0.6d3!

2009-07-31 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Rodolfo D.rodolfo.arc...@gmail.com wrote: Is there an md5 sum of the XS-0.6d3 ISO? I recently downloaded and just wanted to male sure everything is fine I built and uploaded 0.6d3 a few days ago, but only today had a chance to give it a good testing, installing

Re: [Server-devel] errortoomanylogins

2009-08-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Joshua N Pritikinjpriti...@pobox.com wrote: Is this is sane thing to do? Yup. What is the point of this check anyway? If I was going to try to guess a password then I would create a fresh cookie for every attempt. Most students trying to get into their mate's

Re: [Server-devel] K2 Content/Classroom Management System

2009-08-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:58 PM, r...@apc.edu.ph wrote: I am Ray Baquirin of Asia Pacific College in Makati, Philippines.  We are looking to port to the XS  the Classroom Management System that Caroline Meeks posted about here:

Re: [Server-devel] K2 Content/Classroom Management System

2009-08-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Caroline Meekscarol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: There are people on the Sugar Devel list working on making the games run on Sugar.  They are having some issues, but its probably not Flash vs Gnash at the root cause of them. The Teachermate hardware only uses

Re: [Server-devel] Marvell Wi-Fi ejabberd

2009-08-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Miguel Salazarmiguelsalaz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, my name is Miguel Salazar and I'm working on the OLPC Chiapas deployment. We're working with Intel Classmates notebook computers running Sugar-on-a-Stick. Hi! The XS Recommended Hardware wiki page states in the

Re: [Server-devel] revisor-2.1.8 rebuilt for F9

2009-08-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Daniel Draked...@laptop.org wrote: It didn't work. Revisor is quite tied into anaconda, and revisor takes advantage of various new changes in anaconda. It fails with the old one shipped in F9. Getting new anaconda running on F9 looks like a big headache. :(

Re: [Server-devel] Fwd: Simple Digital Library Index System

2009-08-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Mike Dawsonmikeofmanches...@gmail.com wrote: The way it's designed is that the Java program just runs once to generate the indexes. (...) This can then be served by bare apache. right! That's exactly what I was hoping to hear, and quite exceptional too. Most

Re: [Server-devel] iptables generation (was Re: pppd restarting mysteriously)

2009-08-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Joshua N Pritikinjpriti...@pobox.com wrote: Here is the script I promised Martin. Right - thanks for that! I assume it works well and it's been tested for normal and ppp0 connectivity over there. How do you trigger it? Can you load the ruleset even if ppp0 is

Re: [Server-devel] how to copy activation leases to XS?

2009-08-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Martin Langhoffmartin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Uruguay, but I can't find it now. I think I posted it on the list - ah, 'cat-leases' http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-April/012756.html And it's now part of xs-activation, so gets installed in any XS.

Re: [Server-devel] [IAEP] Get Satisfaction

2009-08-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Caroline Meekscarol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: One of their features is the ability to do single sign to gather more information about the user.  F Here is my idea of how it might work. Once Sugar is registered with an XS we could create a single sign on that

Re: [Server-devel] xs-dev.laptop.org Down?

2009-08-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Jerry Vonaujvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Anybody else having trouble reaching xs-dev.laptop.org? You're right. I can't ssh into it either. CC'ing Ed, Wad and Reuben who have access to the room of doom where xs-dev lives. cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com

Re: [Server-devel] Help Nicaragua

2009-08-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
2009/8/18 Kevin Mauricio Benavides Castro webmaster.ac@gmail.com: Hola a todos los de la lista de correo soy kevin programador proyecto fedora 11 la cual tengo problemas a la hora del NANBLASTER la cual me pide una llave de activavion las cuales ya las tenemos pero no se realiza el

Re: [Server-devel] idmgr broken in latest 0.6

2009-08-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Daniel Draked...@laptop.org wrote: Latest idmgr in the XS is broken. No laptops can register because the database is still in the v2 format. you are right. My fix to the installation issue idmgr had is buggy. Working on it - Also, xs-restore needs the

Re: [Server-devel] Scheduled Outage at 1CC--XS-Dev offline

2009-08-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org wrote: Martin, can you login and schedule a shutdown? bash-3.2# at 18:55 8/22/2009 at /sbin/shutdown -h now at EOT job 1 at Sat Aug 22 18:55:00 2009 m -- mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions

Re: [Server-devel] Moodle Profile on the XS - Should we just hide that tab completely?

2009-08-24 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Caroline Meekscarol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: We are using Moodle for backup and I am looking at the UI.  The Profile Tab is asking people to put in their Surname and shows a made up email address. ATM, I am partial to hiding some fields (email,etc). The

Re: [Server-devel] Antitheft: sending a fake stolen...

2009-08-24 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:45 PM, C. Scott Ananiancsc...@laptop.org wrote: so you should probably return a lease which is valid except for the fact that the signed string has an randomly-chosen UUID Exactly my thoughts -- as you can see in the bug. Implementing that goes beyond merely coding

[Server-devel] Preparando un XS-en-XO...

2009-08-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
[Hi list - brief msg in Spanish about how to get XS-on-XO...] Hola Raúl, Kevin, Este email va copiado a la lista server-devel. Les recomiendo suscribirse (tal vez no con la cuenta del trabajo, si tienen una cuenta con gmail o similar, y le ponen filtros / labels adecuados, funciona perfecto).

[Server-devel] OLPC-School-Server-0.6d5 -

2009-08-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
A new iso / img pair -- uploading right now to http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/other/ 390MOLPC-School-Server-0.6d5-i386.img.gz 550MOLPC-School-Server-0.6d5-i386.iso 49543371846637d4462cf48428cb9e309c0ff3d0 OLPC-School-Server-0.6d5-i386.img.gz cf65b211eacabfb6f90a87d06f2972f4a0942b51

Re: [Server-devel] OLPC-School-Server-0.6d5 -

2009-08-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Sameer Vermasve...@sfsu.edu wrote: What's the approx. timeline for 0.6 to go stable? 3 months ago :-/ -- other than that... ASAP. We are sending a XS box to a location where we don't have any remote access to it and no local expertise to run it. Should we use

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] Jabber Testing Monday Aug 24

2009-08-31 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Caroline, sorry about the delay -- catching up on XS things now -- enormous thanks for the report. So controlling for Gadget and reg'd numbers, it seems that the ejabberd version (or perhaps other XS compoment) version makes a difference. The ejabberd upgrade was very significant, and the

Re: [Server-devel] stress testing schoolservers...

2009-08-31 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Sameer Vermasve...@sfsu.edu wrote: I have a student who has to work on a graduate project. He has a background in using Selenium at Youtube. I'm thinking of getting him Interesting! On the XS, we have various things that would be stress-testable. - On the web

Re: [Server-devel] configure a crypto bios xs

2009-09-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hola Kevin, ustedes van a necesitar 3 máquinas en total, como describo más abajo: A - XO para firmar -- con el OS normal del XO + el RPM de olpc-bios-crypto. Bájate el RPM de olpc-bios-crypto que indiqué en el email anterior, instálalo en esta máquina. Copia las llaves maestras de Nicaragua a

Re: [Server-devel] bios-crypto directory

2009-09-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
2009/9/1 Kevin Mauricio Benavides Castro kbenavi...@americancollege.edu.ni: En la maquina A tiene que ser una xo normal a esta le voy a bajar el RMP del Bios crypto  entonces entro a la Terminal del XO he instalo el bios-crypto aquí mismo copiare las llaves maestra del bios crypto pero en que

Re: [Server-devel] change upload size on XS

2009-09-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Sameer Vermasve...@sfsu.edu wrote: How do I get Moodle to accept uploads 2MB on the XS? I am planning to bump that much higher -- as Reuben the OLPCCorps folks have pointed it out. Some info here

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] DB module for moodle in XS server serously coool and needed addittion

2009-09-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 2:56 AM, David Van Asschedvanass...@gmail.com wrote: To create a easy reference for linux commands, the best way was to use the Moodle database module. You can create quite elaborate databases which are then easily edited and added to by users.

Re: [Server-devel] iptables generation

2009-09-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Joshua, I've integrated your script, with some changes to make it atomic, as you can see at http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/xs-config/commit/ There are some problems, however, with the NAT setup. In my setup here, we clearly need to provide a -s parameter to definte the src addresses.

[Server-devel] Moodle-xs updates - merge 1.9.5+, theme, bugfixes

2009-09-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/martin/moodle.git/?h=mdl19-xs (and new RPMs on olpcxs-testing) I've merged the latest 1.9.5+ -- this is a long overdue merge, bringing several bugfixen. There are also fixes to a DB schema versioning error I discovered last night. No changes for end users (yet)

Re: [Server-devel] [IAEP] Where should we put Lesson Plans? Currwiki?

2009-09-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
Some notes I think may be interesting. On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.comwrote: For the Moodle advocates. I am a big Moodle fan. But I don't think its our right now solution for the work we are talking about doing. 1. Our target, elementary school

Re: [Server-devel] Troubles running F9 mock chroot under F11

2009-09-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: I then tried to create a F9 chroot using mock, with the intention of running revisor or pungi inside. This doesn't work, because mock creates a v9 berkeley DB inside the chroot, but the libraries/apps inside the chroot only

Re: [Server-devel] Backup of user home

2009-09-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Raul Gutierrez Segales r...@rieder.net.py wrote: But how will a non-root user be able to read the backup files at /library/users give the following permissions: Look at the acls for a hint. Apache can already read those files :-) But your post points out an

Re: [Server-devel] Attempting to re-install jabber component of XS without re-installing the entire server

2009-09-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Daniel Bennett dant...@gmail.com wrote: 3) Any other newbie level recommendations? If the XS is on 0.5.x, and you can make a backup, I would strongly recommend yum --enablerepo=olpcxs-testing update which will bring updates from the Fedora-9 series (good!)

Re: [Server-devel] timestamps on backups

2009-09-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Hamilton Chua hamilton.c...@gmail.com wrote: /etc/sysconfig/clock says that the timezone of the system is America/New York which is probably the timezone PHP is using. That's weird. Questions - Can you confirm date --utc is correct on the XS and on the

Re: [Server-devel] Attempting to re-install jabber component of XS without re-installing the entire server

2009-09-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Daniel Bennett dant...@gmail.com wrote:   rpm -V kernel dan: I got no news, so I guess it worked Good! dan: I ran:  ejabberdctl connected-users It returns long output like (the random string here is made up by me):

Re: [Server-devel] timestamps on backups

2009-09-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Hamilton Chua hamilton.c...@gmail.com wrote:  - Can you confirm date --utc is correct on the XS and on the involved XOs? Yes, date--utc on both XS and XO's are the same if not close to each other, the difference being a few seconds. thanks I checked the

Re: [Server-devel] Troubles running F9 mock chroot under F11

2009-09-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Thanks! Got it working as follows:  1. extract ISO  2. copy in new ks file  3. add more RPMs to Packages/ (using creative use of yumdownloader to make sure that deps come with the new RPMs)  4. createrepo --database

Re: [Server-devel] Attempting to re-install jabber component of XS without re-installing the entire server

2009-09-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Daniel Bennett dant...@gmail.com wrote: We saw this message at boot, not sure if it's relevant: AICCU is not configured go to /etc/aiccu That's normal. pssql now starts on boot, but we are still getting the same results when accessing:

Re: [Server-devel] Attempting to re-install jabber component of XS without re-installing the entire server

2009-09-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Daniel Bennett dant...@gmail.com wrote: http://sprunge.us/NcQT http://sprunge.us/MERg Hmmm. Very odd! Can you check that your moodle-xs package is correct? What's the output of rpm -q moodle-xs rpm -V moodle-xs (should be empty) That curl to sprunge.us

Re: [Server-devel] Attempting to re-install jabber component of XS without re-installing the entire server

2009-09-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Daniel Bennett dant...@gmail.com wrote:   rpm -q moodle-xs moodle-xs-1.9.5.xs1.1.gc292d55-1.xs9.noarch   rpm -V moodle-xs (should be empty) returns nothing Thanks. I had to re-read your logs a bit. In brief: I made the mistake of reading the

Re: [Server-devel] Attempting to re-install jabber component of XS without re-installing the entire server

2009-09-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Daniel Bennett dant...@gmail.com wrote: Verified Verified:  postmaster (pid 2904 2903 2902 2901 2899 2804) is running... Verified: just these (4 rows) Verified: It continues for 406 rows All perfect then! Given that I'm getting all the same outputs you have

Re: [Server-devel] Attempting to re-install jabber component of XS without re-installing the entire server

2009-09-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Daniel Bennett dant...@gmail.com wrote: Booyahkhshaa! Good to hear it worked! Strange that the DB would have been in a stage where Moodle cannot get it going, and does not give a meaningful error. P.S.  if i first opened the website

[Server-devel] xs-activation update, and antitheft howto

2009-09-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
In the last few weeks I wrote up several procedures related to activation and antitheft tools in Spanish. I now had a chance to write it up in the wiki http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Antitheft_HowTo Together with the writeup, there is a small update to xs-activation so recommended: yum

Re: [Server-devel] XS Wiki pages - thanks, some tidyups

2009-09-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: There is a note now inviting people to mention on server-devel about their edits. I don't want to stop anyone from editing -- a brief note An alternative here would be to have something like the 'CategoryWatch

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