Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-12 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, Getting back to the xen idea, when copying one updated server image and pasting it on an existing server image, we save these files first (from the destination image) in a tar, then after pasting the new image, we unpack the tar ontop. #!/bin/bash now=`date +'%Y-%m-%d.%H.%M.%S'` tarname="$HO

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-11 Thread jam
On Saturday 10 March 2007 01:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Helmut Lichtenberg escribi?: > > > Although slightly going OT, can someone point me to an arcticle or > > > HOWTO about putting /etc under version control and how to set up the > > > repository for a whole bunch of servers? > > > > Well

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-11 Thread jam
On Saturday 10 March 2007 01:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Thanks for the advice with svn. I'll try to find out more about it. > > > Maybe we try it this way, though the Xen solution Chris Fanning > > > proposed has its own special charme :-) > > > > Some time ago I found an article about usi

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-09 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Alexandre Magaz Graça wrote: Helmut Lichtenberg escribió: On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 05:23:17PM +0100, Alexandre Magaz Graça wrote: Thanks for the advice with svn. I'll try to find out more about it. Maybe we try it this way, though the Xen solution Chris Fanning proposed has

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-09 Thread Noel
Helmut Lichtenberg wrote: > Hi Alex, > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:34:45AM +0100, Alexandre Magaz Graça wrote: > >> Helmut Lichtenberg escribió: >> >>> Although slightly going OT, can someone point me to an arcticle or HOWTO >>> about putting /etc under version control and how to set up th

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-09 Thread Helmut Lichtenberg
Hi Alex, On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:34:45AM +0100, Alexandre Magaz Graça wrote: > Helmut Lichtenberg escribió: > > Although slightly going OT, can someone point me to an arcticle or HOWTO > > about putting /etc under version control and how to set up the repository > > for a whole bunch of servers

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-09 Thread Alexandre Magaz Graça
Helmut Lichtenberg escribió: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 05:23:17PM +0100, Alexandre Magaz Graça wrote: >>> Thanks for the advice with svn. I'll try to find out more about it. >>> Maybe we try it this way, though the Xen solution Chris Fanning proposed >>> has its own special charme :-) >> Some tim

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-08 Thread Helmut Lichtenberg
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 05:23:17PM +0100, Alexandre Magaz Graça wrote: > > Thanks for the advice with svn. I'll try to find out more about it. > > Maybe we try it this way, though the Xen solution Chris Fanning proposed > > has its own special charme :-) > > Some time ago I found an article abou

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-08 Thread Alexandre Magaz Graça
Rolf-Werner Eilert escribió: > Noel schrieb: >> Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: >>> [...] >>> This is really a very good idea, but I see one more problem. From time >>> to time you will want to update software on the server. If you update >>> the software, some apps might write their data in another, n

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-08 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Chris Fanning schrieb: > Hi, > > Last year in a summer school we setup two xen installations on two > different boxes running instances of the same virtual machines (ltsp > servers and app servers). > We spread out load with dhcp as mentioned and the homes were mounted > on a third box. It worked

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-08 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Noel schrieb: > Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: >> [...] >> This is really a very good idea, but I see one more problem. From time >> to time you will want to update software on the server. If you update >> the software, some apps might write their data in another, new way and >> users logging in to t

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-08 Thread Noel
Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: > [...] > This is really a very good idea, but I see one more problem. From time > to time you will want to update software on the server. If you update > the software, some apps might write their data in another, new way and > users logging in to the other server after

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-08 Thread Alistair Crust
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 11:35 +, Noel wrote: > balwant singh wrote: > > > > > > On 2/27/07, *Noel* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > wrote: > > > > Tadeu F. Oliveira wrote: > > > Hi, Everybody > > > does anyone have tried LTSP with some kind of load balance? > >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-07 Thread Asmo Koskinen
Tadeu F. Oliveira kirjoitti: > does anyone have tried LTSP with some kind of load balance? > Is there any try to use LTSP with OpenMosix or something such? > Has anybody do it like this way? It is has made with Fedora, but I like to do it with Ubuntu. "Building Highly Available LTSP Clusters

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-07 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, Last year in a summer school we setup two xen installations on two different boxes running instances of the same virtual machines (ltsp servers and app servers). We spread out load with dhcp as mentioned and the homes were mounted on a third box. It worked really well. Keeping the software ve

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-07 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Noel schrieb: > balwant singh wrote: >> >> On 2/27/07, *Noel* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > wrote: >> >> Tadeu F. Oliveira wrote: >> > Hi, Everybody >> > does anyone have tried LTSP with some kind of load balance? >> > Is there any try to use LTSP with OpenMosix

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-07 Thread Noel
balwant singh wrote: > > > On 2/27/07, *Noel* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > Tadeu F. Oliveira wrote: > > Hi, Everybody > > does anyone have tried LTSP with some kind of load balance? > > Is there any try to use LTSP with OpenMosix or something such? >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-06 Thread balwant singh
On 2/27/07, Noel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tadeu F. Oliveira wrote: > Hi, Everybody > does anyone have tried LTSP with some kind of load balance? > Is there any try to use LTSP with OpenMosix or something such? > Yes, we've tried LTSP with home-made load balancing. We set up two identical LTSP

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-06 Thread Helmut Lichtenberg
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:45:33PM +0530, Sudev Barar wrote: > On 02/03/07, Helmut Lichtenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >We have some basic clustering with the following setup: > >All thin clients boot from one DHCP/tftp server and get their image from > >there. > >In their image, they run a st

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-06 Thread Sudev Barar
On 02/03/07, Helmut Lichtenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have some basic clustering with the following setup: > All thin clients boot from one DHCP/tftp server and get their image from > there. > In their image, they run a startx script from /etc/init.d, where they get a > list of available

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-06 Thread Peter Childs
On 02/03/07, Helmut Lichtenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 08:28:25AM -0600, Peter Scheie wrote: > > Martin Woolley wrote: > > > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 13:39, Noel wrote: > > >> Tadeu F. Oliveira wrote: > > >>> Hi, Everybody > > >>> does anyone have tried LTSP with so

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-02 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, I'm using xen to share load and ease management. This is in Spanish but the diagrams are pretty easy to follow ;) http://terminales.uned-terrassa.es/noticias/terminales-freenx-para-el-pas-de-terrassa Thanks to all the developers. Chris. On 3/2/07, Noel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Sc

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-02 Thread Noel
Peter Scheie wrote: > Right, I'm familiar with all of those. I wanted to know which particular > method Martin > was using. > > Petre > BTW, in our "LTSP for poors" environment with two twinservers, we have half of the home directories in each server, and each one mounts the other half via

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-02 Thread Martin Woolley
On Thursday 01 March 2007 14:28, Peter Scheie wrote: > Martin Woolley wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 13:39, Noel wrote: > >> Tadeu F. Oliveira wrote: > >>> Hi, Everybody > >>> does anyone have tried LTSP with some kind of load balance? > >>> Is there any try to use LTSP with OpenMosix or so

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-01 Thread Helmut Lichtenberg
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 08:28:25AM -0600, Peter Scheie wrote: > Martin Woolley wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 13:39, Noel wrote: > >> Tadeu F. Oliveira wrote: > >>> Hi, Everybody > >>> does anyone have tried LTSP with some kind of load balance? > [...] We have some basic clustering with th

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-01 Thread Peter Scheie
Right, I'm familiar with all of those. I wanted to know which particular method Martin was using. Petre Jean-Michel Dault wrote: > Le jeudi 01 mars 2007 à 08:28 -0600, Peter Scheie a écrit : > >> Just curious: how are you handling user authentication and sharing the /home >> directory >> am

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-01 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
Le jeudi 01 mars 2007 à 08:28 -0600, Peter Scheie a écrit : > Just curious: how are you handling user authentication and sharing the /home > directory > among your servers, such that it doesn't matter which server a user is > connected to? For authentication, you have multiple options: 1) stat

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-01 Thread Peter Scheie
Martin Woolley wrote: > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 13:39, Noel wrote: >> Tadeu F. Oliveira wrote: >>> Hi, Everybody >>> does anyone have tried LTSP with some kind of load balance? >>> Is there any try to use LTSP with OpenMosix or something such? >> Yes, we've tried LTSP with home-made load balanc

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-02-27 Thread Martin Woolley
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 13:39, Noel wrote: > Tadeu F. Oliveira wrote: > > Hi, Everybody > > does anyone have tried LTSP with some kind of load balance? > > Is there any try to use LTSP with OpenMosix or something such? > > Yes, we've tried LTSP with home-made load balancing. > > We set up two i

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-02-27 Thread Noel
Tadeu F. Oliveira wrote: > Hi, Everybody > does anyone have tried LTSP with some kind of load balance? > Is there any try to use LTSP with OpenMosix or something such? > Yes, we've tried LTSP with home-made load balancing. We set up two identical LTSP servers, _BOTH_ of them (that's the trick)

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-02-23 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
Le jeudi 22 février 2007 à 03:28 -0800, Tadeu F. Oliveira a écrit : > Hi, Everybody > does anyone have tried LTSP with some kind of load balance? > Is there any try to use LTSP with OpenMosix or something such? There is a solution for X Terminal clustering: Mille-Xterm. It's based on LTSP but heav

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-02-23 Thread Tadeu F. Oliveira
Hi, Everybody does anyone have tried LTSP with some kind of load balance? Is there any try to use LTSP with OpenMosix or something such? Tadeu F. Oliveira Bacharel em Ciência da Computação Aracaju - Sergipe - Brasil http: