Re: [Server-devel] Datastore & backup - request for help

2008-05-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 3:43 PM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That question was asked at the school server presentation > today, by someone from Teaching Matters (IIRC) who knew > of you. They commented that 1GB seemed very low for 100 > students where Moodle was involved. That's

Re: [Server-devel] Datastore & backup - request for help

2008-05-21 Thread John Watlington
On May 21, 2008, at 11:08 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: >> This might be the school server, or it might be a different >> server ('cause Moodle is hogging all the resources on >> the primary school server :-) > > ...mmm! how about raising the specs for the xs then? ;-) That question was asked at th

Re: [Server-devel] Datastore & backup - request for help

2008-05-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:45 PM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michail is choosing a method, which will be used by NM and should be > used by other laptop tasks as well. It will almost certainly not be SSID > based. Cool. I'll keep my ears open - Michail, I assume you'll ping me wh

Re: [Server-devel] XS software compatibility question

2008-05-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wad said it best. All I can add is a suggestion to read through > xs-config to get an idea of what we are tweaking and cherry pick the > bits you might want. Actually, might be better to do git clone git://dev.laptop.o

Re: [Server-devel] XS software compatibility question

2008-05-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:36 PM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This server is running Fedora 7. If I try Fedora 8 or 9 to avoid that >> incompatible package, should your packages still work? > > There lie uncharted waters. > Dennis might be able to help with that answer. > > I suspe

Re: [Server-devel] Datastore & backup - request for help

2008-05-21 Thread John Watlington
On May 21, 2008, at 7:41 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:37 PM, Martin Langhoff > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Bert Freudenberg >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now, is there a reasonable way to check for whether we are in a sch

Re: [Server-devel] XS software compatibility question

2008-05-21 Thread John Watlington
On May 21, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Berkowitz Andrew (Project Connect) wrote: > OK, the jabber is working fine. The problem was that hostname was > working correctly but hostname -s & -f were not. > > I installed the idmgr with yum install idmgr. Are there any > configuration files I need to edit? Tak

Re: [Server-devel] XS software compatibility question

2008-05-21 Thread Berkowitz Andrew (Project Connect)
OK, the jabber is working fine. The problem was that hostname was working correctly but hostname -s & -f were not. I installed the idmgr with yum install idmgr. Are there any configuration files I need to edit? I did manage to crash the server after updating all packages. I could see which one i

Re: [Server-devel] Problems with mesh OLPC Sur list / problemas con la malla

2008-05-21 Thread Kim Quirk
Since I can't read Martin's answers in Spanish, I thought I would answer a few in English. If these two sets of answers don't agree, can someone point it out so we can get them right. See inline below. Kim 2008/5/15 Yama Ploskonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi y'all, I am double posting for I do no

Re: [Server-devel] Datastore & backup - request for help

2008-05-21 Thread Ivan Krstić
On May 21, 2008, at 4:41 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > what I am trying to sort out is the following. With the deployments > that have APs instead of AAs, how do we tell school APs from any > random AP out there? You don't, because you can't depend on controlling that part of infra. If you need t

Re: [Server-devel] Datastore & backup - request for help

2008-05-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:37 PM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Now, is there a reasonable way to check for whether we are in a school >>> mesh? >> No idea. > No worries, I cannibalised a bit of bash scr