Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Keyboard map

2002-05-15 Thread Remi BERNHARD
> > Now I have another problem : my keyboard is french, and I have a "US" > > config in ltsp. I haven't found how to load a "latin-fr" keyboard map. > >aah, the joys of azerty... > > XkbLayout = gb >in lts.conf works to give me UK English rather than US English... Do you know if

[Ltsp-discuss] Local swap ?

2002-05-15 Thread D. Grunewald
Hi @ all ! Just a short question. Are there now any possibilities to make local swap at the clients available ? best regards, danny ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get t

[Ltsp-discuss] deb

2002-05-15 Thread Tom Allison
I thought somewhere there were debian packages for the ltsp? True/False? ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] spanish keyboard

2002-05-15 Thread Remi BERNHARD
>> > on the terminal under runlevel 3 or 4 i says : > > > # loadkeys es >> > the command is ok, the keymap is loaded but not work, >> Also I did the same than you, as a package, you may try it. It is in >the Xtras > > section, under Patrice dumas, it is called lts_kmap. > >Pedro, >you may need

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] deb

2002-05-15 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:36:12AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > I thought somewhere there were debian packages for the ltsp? > > True/False? True. deb http://termserv.berlios.de/debian stable main non-free -- Hans Ekbrand msg05194/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ssh trick [was: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Stunnel and encrypted traffic]

2002-05-15 Thread Patrice DUMAS - DOCT
Hi, > ssh will ignore the -X parameter if $DISPLAY is not set. So > > DISPLAY=":0.0" > export DISPLAY > ssh -X -l user server icewm > > should do the trick. This is needed but not sufficient. In my case, I use xinit, thus the DISPLAY is correctly set. However this isn't sufficient, what is ne

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-15 Thread Brian Fahrlander
On Wed, 15 May 2002 07:12:38 +0200, "Johannes Berth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Julius Szelagiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [15.05.02 04:07]: > > a little exposure sometimes does a lot of good. maybe quoting your > > letter to the list will sober you up. > > Hey great idea. Publishing a pri

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-15 Thread Brian Fahrlander
On Wed, 15 May 2002 08:56:53 +0200, "Hans Ekbrand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is exactly why is is a good idea to reboot (after major changes, > and when you have time to handle it if it goes wrong): make yourself > confident that the next time the computer reboots (which might be when > y

Re: ssh trick [was: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Stunnel and encrypted traffic]

2002-05-15 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:06:47PM +0200, Patrice DUMAS - DOCT wrote: > Hi, > > > ssh will ignore the -X parameter if $DISPLAY is not set. So > > > > DISPLAY=":0.0" > > export DISPLAY > > ssh -X -l user server icewm > > > > should do the trick. > > This is needed but not sufficient. You are

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-15 Thread Julius Szelagiewicz
Brian, you want to reboot from time for one reason only: the two of us didn't write all the software we run, so some of it isn't perfect. there are otherwise nice programs that that forget to return memory to the pool, there are those little annoying zombie processes, there are leftovers f

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-15 Thread Shane Kennedy
Has anyone heard of memory leaks. Of course linux itself doesn't have this problem, but many app's do. Anyone who feels like being rude, do it somewhere else. There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers, and anyway, the only one who knows THEIR system is the one asking the question. S

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-15 Thread Julius Szelagiewicz
Johannes, since you are so strong on admin, you will understand why it is so fun to enter your name into the "drop his mail into the bit bucket" table. one last remark: it seems that the whimpering you hear is your own. julius On Wed, 15 May 2002, Johannes Berth wrote: > * Julius Szelagi

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Stunnel and encrypted traffic

2002-05-15 Thread Patrice DUMAS - DOCT
Hi, On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 03:22:35PM -0400, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote: > Patrice, > your number 2 solution should work, provided that the workstation > can *locally* encrypt the traffic with a public key. julius If you agree to use RSA based authentication, then I implemented something w

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-15 Thread Tommy Eaton
wow > -Original Message- > From: Johannes Berth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 11:16 AM > To: LTSP > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot > > * Stephen Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [14.05.02 16:36]: > > > I would like to have my LTSP server reboot once per week

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-15 Thread Brian Fahrlander
On Wed, 15 May 2002 11:52:33 +0100, "Shane Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Has anyone heard of memory leaks. Of course linux itself doesn't have > this problem, but many app's do. The only thing that caused us problems was Netscape; we didn't use any Java (which has/had a tende

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-15 Thread Johannes Berth
* Julius Szelagiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [15.05.02 12:51]: > one last remark: it seems that the whimpering you hear is your own. If you have a problem with me, put me in your killfile. But do it _silently_ and don't bother the mailing list with another useless mail from you. We could have mana

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-15 Thread Peter Billson
> The only thing that caused us problems was Netscape [snip] Netscape is always a problem, particularly when the GUI crashes but Netscape continues to run so the user can not start a new instance. My solution to this was to write a wrapper script that simply killall -9 netscape (and java

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Local swap ?

2002-05-15 Thread jam
Danny, Yes, it's possible. But, it's not a built-in feature of LTSP. Assuming you are using an IDE disk, you need to load the appropriate IDE modules for the disk, then you can do the swapon command to enable the swap space. This would all go in the rc.local script. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] CAD Software / OS X Terminals

2002-05-15 Thread David South Jr
Charles Marcus wrote: > Tarantella/Win4Lin combination... (if the www.linuxcad.com/ > doesn't work for you - looked to be the best solution offered)... > > Tarantella/Win4Lin combo lets you set up a Win4Lin server and serve > up sessions - get this - even over a *dial-up* WAN link (acceptable

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] deb

2002-05-15 Thread Ragnar Wisløff
Sitat Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > deb http://termserv.berlios.de/debian stable main non-free > I saw new packages posted, but I did not catch the changes. There is no changelog that I could find on the url listed. What are the changes? Thanks, -- Mvh Ragnar Wisløff ---

[Ltsp-discuss] RE: cramming more data over small bandwidth

2002-05-15 Thread TWyrick
Not sure if anyone here has examined this product yet, but check out: http://www.expandnetworks.com One of my co-workers recently saw a demo of this product in action. They set up 5 or 6 users trying to share a 56K modem connection to a Citrix Metaframe server. Of course, it was pretty much un

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Stunnel and encrypted traffic

2002-05-15 Thread Julius Szelagiewicz
Patrice, you are good! the rsa should do the trick just fine. for places where stronger encryption is necesary i would just use hardware based encryption and single use passwords - SecureId comes to mind. julius On Wed, 15 May 2002, Patrice DUMAS - DOCT wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, May 14, 2

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] RE: cramming more data over small bandwidth

2002-05-15 Thread Michel Donais
> This might be a great solution for Tarantella users too. It's not Citrix > specific... Just an intelligent network caching device that gets placed at > both ends of your link. Is this box can work over a standard telco phone line? Michel

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] CAD Software / OS X Terminals

2002-05-15 Thread Brian Johnson
What is Tarantella? I don't quite understand what it does > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David > South Jr > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 9:22 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] CAD Software / OS X Terminals

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Not enough RAM

2002-05-15 Thread Brian Johnson
That seemed to work (I got the kernel and lib/modules from the ltsp_kernel-3.0.1 package) Now I have to figure out X configuration for this workstation > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 5:03 PM > To: Brian Johnson >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-15 Thread Alessandro Selli
Il giorno Wed, 15 May 2002, Brian Fahrlander così ha scritto: |From: Brian Fahrlander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 07:15:53 -0500 |Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot | |On Wed, 15 May 2002 11:52:33 +0100, "Shane Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | |>

[Ltsp-discuss] Re: dont shoot me...boot from hard drive

2002-05-15 Thread Chris Matchett
Thanks John for your excellent guidance on booting LTSP from a hard drive alongside Windows!   It worked perfectly on first attempt but subsequently on two other machines I haven't had any joy. I am getting "filesysem type unrecognised" when trying to write Grub to the MBR. The drives are 5G

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Keyboard map

2002-05-15 Thread David Johnston
Remi BERNHARD wrote: > > > > Now I have another problem : my keyboard is french, and I have a "US" > > > config in ltsp. I haven't found how to load a "latin-fr" keyboard map. > > > >aah, the joys of azerty... > > > > XkbLayout = gb > >in lts.conf works to give me UK English rath

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] spanish keyboard

2002-05-15 Thread David Johnston
Remi BERNHARD wrote: > > >> > on the terminal under runlevel 3 or 4 i says : > > > > # loadkeys es > >> > the command is ok, the keymap is loaded but not work, > >> Also I did the same than you, as a package, you may try it. It is in > >the Xtras > > > section, under Patrice dumas, it is calle

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Local swap ?

2002-05-15 Thread Shane Kennedy
Would there be any advantage in swapping to ramdisk ?. Is ramdisk any more space efficient than regular ram i.e. Compressed ?. Shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Danny, > > Yes, it's possible. But, it's not a built-in > feature of LTSP. > > Assuming you are using an IDE disk, you need to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] CAD Software / OS X Terminals

2002-05-15 Thread David South Jr
David Johnston wrote: > I would be very interested to hear the results of any tests you do. I'm > a consultant, and none of my current clients does CAD work, but you > never know. > > I would be concerned that CAD would require too much network bandwidth > between server and client to make LTSP

[Ltsp-discuss] Performa 5260s

2002-05-15 Thread Stephen Berry
Calling all Apple + LTSP gurus!! Hi, We have a small setup of 30 LTSP terminals at our school which are 486/pentium boxes all booting from floppy disk. We also have a room of 33 Apple Macintosh Performa 5260 PowerPC computers which are beginning to show their age. I was wondering if anyone here

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Performa 5260s

2002-05-15 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 08:46:07PM +0100, Stephen Berry wrote: > Calling all Apple + LTSP gurus!! > I was wondering if anyone here had a detailed step by step guide > as to how to get these machines to boot to LTSP? Take a look at Skip Gaedes HOWTO at http://www.ltsp.org/contrib/index.php He por

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP without DHCP

2002-05-15 Thread Martin Herweg
Hi all! I'm looking for LTSP without DHCP. I do not want a DHCP Broadcast. I want to store the Information about the clinet & server-IP on the client's Harddisk or Floppy. did anyone try that? I had a look at "linuxrc" and "dhclinet-script" inside the initrd of the wireless-floppy but I can

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Local swap ?

2002-05-15 Thread Martin Herweg
D. Grunewald wrote: > Hi @ all ! > > Just a short question. > Are there now any possibilities to make local swap > at the clients available ? yes, try this "hd_swap" startscript : -- #!/bin/sh # # /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/rc.d/hd_swap # # ###

[Ltsp-discuss] openoffice

2002-05-15 Thread Brian Johnson
I was wondering if people are successfully running openoffice (or staroffice) through ltsp (on the server) I'm trying to do it with openoffice 1.0 and it keeps locking up on me I suspect it's because my test ltsp server is only a Pentium 166 with 64Mb RAM Running 'top' looks like openoffice is

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP without DHCP

2002-05-15 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 10:32:08PM +0200, Martin Herweg wrote: > > Hi all! > > I'm looking for LTSP without DHCP. > > I do not want a DHCP Broadcast. > I want to store the Information > about the clinet & server-IP > on the client's > Harddisk or Floppy. Why not let LILO load a kernel on hard

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] openoffice

2002-05-15 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:59:34PM -0400, Brian Johnson wrote: > I was wondering if people are successfully running openoffice (or > staroffice) through ltsp (on the server) > > I'm trying to do it with openoffice 1.0 and it keeps locking up on me > > I suspect it's because my test ltsp server i

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] openoffice

2002-05-15 Thread Peter Billson
Brian Johnson wrote: > > I was wondering if people are successfully running openoffice (or > staroffice) through ltsp (on the server) > > I'm trying to do it with openoffice 1.0 and it keeps locking up on me > > I suspect it's because my test ltsp server is only a Pentium 166 with 64Mb > RAM >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] openoffice

2002-05-15 Thread Jonathan Gill
Hi, Running openoffice here quite happily, using LTSP 3.0. Granted the server is resonably powerful with lots of ram, so that may be your problem. -- Jonathan Gill +65 98551701 Technology Architect/CTO +65 62436800 SecureCiRT, A SBU of Z-Vance Pte Ltd http://www.securecirt.com/

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] CAD Software / OS X Terminals

2002-05-15 Thread David Johnston
David South Jr wrote: > I'm not sure what CAD will do to our network bandwidth. I hadn't really > considered it. I'd have thought it wouldn't be any worse than most > programs. When drawing in 2D, you manipulate simple line objects on > the screen. Screen updates may not be a big problem. > > If

[Ltsp-discuss] Tarantella

2002-05-15 Thread Jason Bechtel
Tarantella is a "platform" (whatever meaning that word still retains) for delivering application interfaces to a remote client via Java and a proprietary protocol. I use the word "platform" because it is pretty much OS agnostic at both ends. The server part runs on multiple OSes, (Linux, for our

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: dont shoot me...boot from hard drive

2002-05-15 Thread John_Cuzzola
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Chris Matchett wrote: > > It worked perfectly on first attempt but subsequently on two other > machines I haven't had any joy. I am getting "filesysem type > unrecognised" when trying to write Grub to the MBR. *** hmmm, not sure there but you may want to try fdisk /mbr to

[Ltsp-discuss] Re: CD Burning (Jason Bechtel)

2002-05-15 Thread jam
Hi > > Just one simple question. I'm using LTSP in a home environment with 2 other > > PC's, just purely for interest and to play around with it. However I've > > noticed that if someone logs on while I'm burning a CD, the CD burning > > process will fail (I'm using X-CD-Roast) Is there any wa

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-15 Thread Dave Shiels
Johannes Berth wrote: > * Julius Szelagiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [15.05.02 12:51]: > >>one last remark: it seems that the whimpering you hear is your own. >> > > If you have a problem with me, put me in your killfile. But do it > _silently_ and don't bother the mailing list with another usele

[Ltsp-discuss] Poor man's instrumentation for LTSP clients

2002-05-15 Thread Skip Gaede
Folks, I've had a few exchanges with Jim about the "right" way to do this, and I agree that SNMP or a sockets-based app running as a daemon would be a more elegant solution, but I now have running, on a client near me, a script that collects information from the /proc/meminfo file and dumps th

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Poor man's instrumentation for LTSP clients

2002-05-15 Thread Brian Fahrlander
On Wed, 15 May 2002 20:43:37 -0400, "Skip Gaede" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks, > > I've had a few exchanges with Jim about the "right" way to do this, and I > agree that SNMP or a sockets-based app running as a daemon would be a more > elegant solution, but I now have running, on a clien

[Ltsp-discuss] vmware

2002-05-15 Thread Iman Ridwan
Hi Friends, I was trying to use vmware on ltsp, and not yet success :-(, using the lts.conf with vmware part, what was the (X4_BUSID = "PCI:0:15:0" ) means, is it possible to get the client directly use vmware rather than linux prompt ? TIA, --iman-- _

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] small pc board and fanless power supply

2002-05-15 Thread Michel Donais
> Good links, but what about Linux compatibility? Has anyone tested this or is > there any mention anywhere of Linux compatibility? I have a C3 800mhz at work. For Linux RedHat 7.3 and lan communication to LTSP, PXE boot everything is working well in text or graphical mode. At the first look,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Not enough RAM

2002-05-15 Thread Remi BERNHARD
At 23:14 14/05/02 +0200, Johannes Berth wrote: >* Brian Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [14.05.02 22:44]: > > I keep adding RAM to boxes and initrd keeps telling me that there isn't > > enough then I get an error that prevents the box from starting X > > I'm up to 32 Megs of RAM - that should be enoug

[Ltsp-discuss] Ltsp Server recommended setup

2002-05-15 Thread Remi BERNHARD
Hi all, I would like to setup a classroom with 24 ltsp xterminals. I would like what is the recommended setup to run mandrake 8.2, KDE, and Kylix 2. By "setup" I mean, : - how powerfull the CPU should be ? - how much RAM ? - How much Swap ? For now, we've got PIII 800

[Ltsp-discuss] Re: Ltsp-discuss digest, Vol 1 #576 - 18 msgs

2002-05-15 Thread Shanmugasundaram Doraisamy
Dear Readers, We have LTSP 3.0 running on Redhat Linux 7.2. The LTSP terminals are used for dataentry into a Custom made Hospital management package. Our package does not need the use of mouse. We want to logout out of GNOME using short cut keys for example Alt+L. It works o

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Not enough RAM

2002-05-15 Thread Johannes Berth
* Remi BERNHARD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [15.05.02 23:16]: > This interest me a lot. How did you setup lts to work with 4Mo ? > Regards, With a modified 2.2.x kernel with devfs patch and modified startup scripts. ___ Have big pipes? SourceF

[Ltsp-discuss] Dead client leaves lingering processes

2002-05-15 Thread jeffj
When a LTSP client on my LAN dies without warning while someone is logged in, it leaves processes running on the server. These processes will run indefinitely if they aren't manually killed and they cause trouble if the user logs in again before they are killed. Is there a solution available?

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: Ltsp-discuss digest, Vol 1 #576 - 18 msgs

2002-05-15 Thread Brian Fahrlander
On Thu, 16 May 2002 09:09:41 +0530 (IST), "Shanmugasundaram Doraisamy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Readers, > We have LTSP 3.0 running on Redhat Linux 7.2. The LTSP > terminals are used for dataentry into a Custom made Hospital management > package. Our package does not n

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Dead client leaves lingering processes

2002-05-15 Thread Johannes Berth
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [16.05.02 07:53]: > When a LTSP client on my LAN dies without warning while someone is > logged in, it leaves processes running on the server. These processes > will run indefinitely if they aren't manually killed and they cause > trouble if the user logs in

[Ltsp-discuss] Time stamps

2002-05-15 Thread Gary Hodder
Hi all, is there any way to stop the time stamps being sent to each client? I've tried deleting the clocks on each terminal but that didnt seem to help much. I'm looking at about 2 mb data flow per minute with the terminals doing nothing. The screen savers set to blank screen and screens are bl

[Ltsp-discuss] no screens found

2002-05-15 Thread Sheilafel Vida
hi, we tried to boot up our workstation at runlevel 5 but it gives the following error: server fatal error: no screens found but it runs in runlevel 3. we wonder what is wrong with it. thanks... :) Outgrown your current e-mail service

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] no screens found

2002-05-15 Thread Katsonis, Dennis
That's a problem with X running on the Workstation. X is trying to start but cant find a video mode to use. You'll need to double check your X configuration for the workstation. > -- > From: Sheilafel Vida[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: