[Server-devel] Can I name my server something other than http://BOX.LAN ?

2017-02-14 Thread Adam Holt 
As our documentation is coming together, this is only a Draft!  As I'm sure
Jerry Vonau and other networking wizards like can improve on this response
:)

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition/FAQ#Can_I_name_my_server_something_other_than_http:.2F.2FBOX.LAN_.3F

PS this is #11 within the 21 Frequently Asked Questions at
http://schoolserver.org/FAQ
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Re: [Server-devel] XSCE Install Doc Cleanup: Ansible 2.2.1 ok? OS support clarifs? Custom short cuts?

2017-02-14 Thread Adam Holt 
On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 6:04 PM, Adam Holt  wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Adam Holt  wrote:
>
>> As we prepare to release XSCE 6.2, I removed many typos/errors from
>> https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/wiki/XSCE-Installation giving it a quick
>> pass for readability.
>>
>> 1) I also included a warning about the problematic Ansible 2.2.1, can
>> anybody confirm this is indeed still an issue?
>>
>> 2) Can I reference experimental support for CentOS 7.3 (needs more
>> testing!) alongside Debian Jessie (8.6+ and 8.7.1+), Raspbian Pixel etc ?
>>
>> 3) Should the sentence "There are also tools to help you create short cut
>> files for yourself or others." be removed?
>>
>
> PS When we reach consensus on #2 above, let's also
> overhaul/replace/finalize https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/wiki/XSCE-Platforms
> :-)
>

Question: if https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/tree/release-6.2/docs is
increasingly deprecated, can somebody (Tim?) make a prominent link in there
redirecting people to https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/wiki ?
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Re: [Server-devel] XSCE Install Doc Cleanup: Ansible 2.2.1 ok? OS support clarifs? Custom short cuts?

2017-02-14 Thread Adam Holt 
On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Adam Holt  wrote:

> As we prepare to release XSCE 6.2, I removed many typos/errors from
> https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/wiki/XSCE-Installation giving it a quick
> pass for readability.
>
> 1) I also included a warning about the problematic Ansible 2.2.1, can
> anybody confirm this is indeed still an issue?
>
> 2) Can I reference experimental support for CentOS 7.3 (needs more
> testing!) alongside Debian Jessie (8.6+ and 8.7.1+), Raspbian Pixel etc ?
>
> 3) Should the sentence "There are also tools to help you create short cut
> files for yourself or others." be removed?
>

PS When we reach consensus on #2 above, let's also
overhaul/replace/finalize https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/wiki/XSCE-Platforms
:-)
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[Server-devel] XSCE Install Doc Cleanup: Ansible 2.2.1 ok? OS support clarifs? Custom short cuts?

2017-02-14 Thread Adam Holt 
As we prepare to release XSCE 6.2, I removed many typos/errors from
https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/wiki/XSCE-Installation giving it a quick pass
for readability.

1) I also included a warning about the problematic Ansible 2.2.1, can
anybody confirm this is indeed still an issue?

2) Can I reference experimental support for CentOS 7.3 (needs more
testing!) alongside Debian Jessie (8.6+ and 8.7.1+), Raspbian Pixel etc ?

3) Should the sentence "There are also tools to help you create short cut
files for yourself or others." be removed?
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[Server-devel] /etc/crontab & other regularly scheduled jobs within XSCE/IIAB

2017-02-14 Thread Adam Holt 
George & All,

How can a community deployment monitor which all cron-like jobs are running
hourly/daily/etc on its server?

e.g. Thanks to George's branch release-6.2 work @
https://github.com/georgejhunt/xsce/commit/2a62885158a868bb9170e6121f822d635b5e9eda
(also at
https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/commit/2a62885158a868bb9170e6121f822d635b5e9eda
) kiwix-serve should now be much more reliable, with an hourly restart, as
should very soon be announced in 6.2's Release Notes!

But how can a community deployment monitor all OpenVPN-and-similar
hourly-like job, for those Beta-and-similar implementers wanting to
understand their own system?  e.g. I do not see an OpenVPN cron job here:

root@Internet-in-a-Box:~# more /etc/crontab
# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
# command to install the new version when you edit this file
# and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also have username fields,
# that none of the other crontabs do.

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

# m h dom mon dow user  command
17 ** * *   rootcd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6* * *   roottest -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts
--repor
t /etc/cron.daily )
47 6* * 7   roottest -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts
--repor
t /etc/cron.weekly )
52 61 * *   roottest -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts
--repor
t /etc/cron.monthly )
#
15 *  *  *  * root /bin/systemctl restart kiwix-serve.service

Nor do I see it OpenVPN cron job(s) below on this RPi3 running XSCE 6.2
Release Candidate:

root@Internet-in-a-Box:/etc# ls cron*
crontab

cron.d:
awstats  munin  munin-node  php5

cron.daily:
apache2  aptitude  cracklib-runtime  etckeeper   logrotate  mlocate
passwd
apt  bsdmainutils  dpkg  exim4-base  man-db ntp
samba

cron.hourly:
fake-hwclock

cron.monthly:

cron.weekly:
man-db

Or if OpenVPN uses another mechanism to hold & relaunch its connection
(finely tuned, it works quite well!) where is that "systemctl restart
openvpn@xscenet" or equivalent regularly run from?

With what exact hourly-or-similar schedule, beginning how many minutes
after each hour?

Muchas Gracias!
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