Re: [Server-devel] Centos as a base for sugar-Dextrose? and/or XSCE

2013-07-28 Thread Tom Mitchell
More precisely CentOS tracks RHEL (Redhat enterprise linux). Fedora is experemental in that features found to be stable in Fedora can be gated into RHEL.Another aspect is hardware. For OLPC Fedora or Ubuntu is most likely to have hardware support. Politics appears to open up more hardware on

Re: [Server-devel] DNS on XS 0.7

2013-04-24 Thread Tom Mitchell
What DNS server are you asking to look things up for you. If the gateway works. Can you ping the IP address... (note google has many, many, this one) # ping www.google.com PING www.google.com (74.125.28.103) Check your /etc/resolv.conf file for sanity. If you add: nameserver 8.8.8.8 and retry do

Re: [Server-devel] XS procurement recommendations (new hardware - Nosy Komba, Madagascar)

2012-04-17 Thread Tom Mitchell
Good list!. Of interest there is a FitPC3. http://www.fit-pc.com/web/introduction-to-fit-pc3/ It has a low power budget and rich I/O resources. Perhaps if someone would contact them and invite them to the party they could close or help others close the gaps. It has promise. I especially like th

Re: [Server-devel] buffer bloat - may be OT

2011-06-03 Thread Tom Mitchell
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Tom Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: Sorry Peter Robinson and readers ... I got the attribution wrong. --                       T o m   M i t c h e l l                     mitch-at-niftyegg-dot-com "My lifetime go

Re: [Server-devel] buffer bloat - may be OT

2011-06-03 Thread Tom Mitchell
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: There are some back of the envelope computations that can help with OLPC in a wireless mesh or from a server. Bandwidth is fixed. So if there are two OLPCs connecting to a server you need to divide the bandwidth by two and target a sub second

Re: [Server-devel] Question on number of iptables rules

2011-02-01 Thread Tom Mitchell
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Anna wrote: > My test XS at home has a FQDN and is open to the outside.  Therefore this is > probably a pretty rare issue in XS land, but I thought I'd ask. > > I noticed my "ambient" rx/tx traffic on eth0 had gone from really low (like > 0.1 to 0.7 kB/s) to hoverin

Re: [Server-devel] IP Address Pools for XOs, known clients, and unknown clients on XS 0.6

2011-01-12 Thread Tom Mitchell
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Anna wrote: > I like to leave the AP open on my test XS 0.6 at home, but ran into an issue > with that yesterday.  I noticed the lights on my router blinking like crazy, > so I did a live tail on the squid access log to see what was going on. > > tail -f /var/log/s

Re: [Server-devel] Static IP and DNS problems

2010-07-01 Thread Tom Mitchell
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:23 PM, David Leeming wrote: > I can see a lot of occurrences of "bad owner name" and "zone rejected" in > the messages log which may be related. > > My aim is only to recover the server back to default condition. Is it > possible to copy over the config files (with appro

Re: [Server-devel] Static IP and DNS problems

2010-06-29 Thread Tom Mitchell
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:43 AM, David Leeming > wrote: >> I tried to set up the WAN interface with a static IP address and DNS >> pointing at the gateway, following instructions at > > It is all pretty straightforward -- but "and DNS poin

Re: [Server-devel] firewalling/nocat

2009-09-29 Thread Tom Mitchell
Please mark it GPL. A README.GPL file on your server or some comments in the source or in email should do. Lots of scripts do not have a GPL line but may have an Implied GPL in a source tree policy. Since you are not checking it in yourself it seems like a good thing to do and a courtesy to thos

Re: [Server-devel] timestamps on backups

2009-09-16 Thread Tom Mitchell
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Hamilton Chua > wrote: >> I'm not sure if anybody has noticed this yet but after doing a backup, >> it seems the datestamps on the backup page are wrong. > > We might need more detail than that if we're to

Re: [Server-devel] Duplicate IP Address

2009-04-06 Thread Tom Mitchell
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Dave Bauer wrote: > I am having issues testing two soas1 virtual machines running on the same > box. > They got through NAT cable modem so they end up on the same ip address. > > The second VM can see the first in the neighborhood, but the first doesn't > see the se

[Server-devel] xen and XS.... development

2008-09-07 Thread Tom Mitchell
I recently learned that xen was hobbled on a fedora9 host with older processors. For some school server development a virtual machine environment might be a good thing -- with luck fedora 10 will fix this but just in case one might consider adding xen to the short checklist of needs for a developm

Re: [Server-devel] ext2resize?

2008-08-21 Thread Tom Mitchell
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Joshua N Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 05:24:48PM -0700, Nifty Egg Mitch wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:53:02AM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: >> > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 4:53 AM, Joshua N Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > wrot

Re: [Server-devel] A simple signed bundle/directory trust scheme for the XS

2008-08-13 Thread Tom Mitchell
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Langhoff wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> * What use cases are you trying to support? >> >> Insert a usb stick with content that is OK'd by the regional NOC >> (n

Re: [Server-devel] Static Ip settings

2008-08-12 Thread Tom Mitchell
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 04:50:20PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:10:13PM -0700, Tom Mitchell wrote: > > I have not looked for the build scripts... Is there a pointer? > > http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/mstone/puritan;f=install_hacks.py;hb=devel_jffs

Re: [Server-devel] Static Ip settings

2008-08-11 Thread Tom Mitchell
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:38 PM, James Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 08:19:30AM -0700, Tom Mitchell wrote: >> The comment about "Debian version" reminds me to ask about man and >> info pages. Is there a set of man pages that matches

Re: [Server-devel] Static Ip settings

2008-08-11 Thread Tom Mitchell
The comment about "Debian version" reminds me to ask about man and info pages. Is there a set of man pages that matches the packages for various XO installations? Since XO disk space is small I expect an online or school server cache On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 5:08 PM, James Cameron <[EMAIL PR