Jared, Sounds like a worthy project.
Have you thought about how to handle the differences between Linux distros ? Redhat, SuSE and Debian all have different ways of starting/stopping services. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Jared McIntyre wrote: > I'm working on a project with a number of high-school kids from > Littleton Public Schools at one of the elementary schools. Its an > after school project where we build computers with donated (read: > busted and old) parts. Lately we've started a second project based > around the LTSP project. The idea is to build cheap, easy to admin > labs out of Linux and spare computer parts. One of the areas we are > working on is administration. Most of the people running labs in > schools tend to have very little computer knowledge, and have a > serious time doing decent administration. LTSP gets us around part > of the problem--its a lot easier to administer one server than 30-40 > individual boxes. However, what we need is a set of very simple > administration tools that are extremely easy to use (this will have > to include install and setup). Is there already a project in the > works? If not, we are planning to create a SourceForge project and > begin the development of these tools. We plan to start with the > development of simple Perl scripts to retrieve data from and > manipulate data in the different config files (and restart services > and good things like that). Of course, that won't be easy enough for > the vast majority of school admins to make them want to use the > system. Since most of these admins use Windows, there must be an > overwhelming reason for them to switch (at least in their labs). > They will not want to learn new tools, and the more cryptic those > tools, the less likely they will want to use this system (after all, > they don't have that much time in th efirst place). So, the second > step would be to build easy to use GUI tools (think dumbed down but > powerful) that sit on top of the scripts and use them for all > interaction. I have a theoretically step three and four that would > involve SNMP, but that is to far off in the distance to discuss at > this point. Is this of interest to anyone? If it is, please contact > me. We meet Mondays, so I would like to have some basic information > on community reaction so we can begin forging the plans for the next > couple months. > > Thanks for your interest, > -- > > Jared McIntyre > Deep Fried Software > Deep Fried LLC > Owner/Engineer > http://www.dfsoftware.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
