Re: [Server-devel] Fixing the Shellshocker bash exploit on the old FC9 based XS 0.6

2014-09-25 Thread Anna
x27;ll keep an eye on https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.3-patches/ and hope a patch for CVE-2014-7169 lands in there soon. Yes, I do need to stop procrastinating and replace this machine. This old Dell's power supply is going bad. Takes me about an hour of mysterious fiddling to get it pow

[Server-devel] Fixing the Shellshocker bash exploit on the old FC9 based XS 0.6

2014-09-25 Thread Anna
ure of any other specific requirements since I installed the Development Tools group on this box a long time ago. You can find more information here: https://shellshocker.net/ Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-de

[Server-devel] Taking pictures with an XSCE on an XO

2014-02-22 Thread Anna
h-4.2# cat /etc/group |grep apache video:x:39:olpc,apache audio:x:63:olpc,apache mkdir /var/www/html/images and then: chown apache:apache /var/www/html/images Reboot. Then go to http://whatever your XSCE's IP is/webcam.cgi and it automagically takes and displays a picture of

Re: [Server-devel] Large groups of XO-1 do not work with access points

2014-02-07 Thread Anna
nnel 11, and the XSCE's AP on channel 6. Musing upon it now, I should probably switch the channels between my "regular AP" on 11 and the XSCE's - the XSCE's channel 6 might be getting crowded out by my neighbors on 4,5,6, and 8. Anna On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Jam

Re: [Server-devel] $400 computer for Haiti

2013-12-19 Thread Anna
ise, fans sound like jet planes taking off and everything gets really hot and stressed. Anyway, heat related failure would be one of my main concerns in Haiti. Anna On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 4:58 PM, George Hunt wrote: > Hi all, > > The Haiti deployment we are preparing for, made $400

Re: [Server-devel] Supporting basic mobile phones

2013-11-25 Thread Anna
I was thinking about the type of phones as well. If by "smartphone," Tim means a phone that can do wifi, that should be easy enough to fit into our existing ecosystem. Maybe have browser detection and serve mobile optimized stuff, say redirect to http://m.schoolserver on those devices. If the ph

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] End User Documentation / Basic Setup Guide / How to upload PDFs etc

2013-11-17 Thread Anna
umble opinion) is what to do with XSCE once it's > up and running. I'll try to make some time to document the things I > learn as I go. > > Thanks for the help > > > On 11/17/2013 12:05 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Anna wrote: >

[Server-devel] Setting up a USB drive for the XSCE Activity Update service

2013-11-08 Thread Anna
server dir will just "automagically" show up on http://schoolserver/activities with the "blurbs" you wrote in the activities.info file. I don't know how the USB drive gets ejected by novice users from the XSCE. Which could be a concern? At any rate, this probably needs a wiki en

Re: [Server-devel] Reminder: XSCE IRC scrum tomorrow (5th November), 1600 UTC / 1200 EDT on #schoolserver/irc.freenode.net

2013-11-05 Thread Anna
Since Daylight Savings is over, we meet at Noon EST, 11 am CST. For folks on the West coast, that's 9 am PST. Basically, if it's noon in NYC, that's when we meet on Tuesdays on IRC. Anna On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Anish Mangal wrote: > I screwed up, because 1600 UTC

Re: [Server-devel] How to create a screencast

2013-10-28 Thread Anna
Here's a few commands I played with from an XO-1, then tried to view stream.ogg from my desktop. I couldn't get streaming to work, though, all it did was display a static screen capture. gst-launch ximagesrc! ffmpegcolorspace ! videorate ! videoscale ! video/x-raw-yuv,framerate=5/1,width=320,heig

[Server-devel] Using a wifi dongle as an AP on the XSCE

2013-10-27 Thread Anna
technically you don't need eth0 to be up. Though I am curious what's going on with eth0, I'm guessing it might be Network Manager related? Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

[Server-devel] ifcfg-eth# files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts generated by runansible

2013-10-25 Thread Anna
supposed to be. What we should probably do is discard any ifcfg-eth# files first thing so there aren't any old ones lingering about to muck up networking. Anna ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] github workflow

2013-10-23 Thread Anna
Santi wrote some excellent documentation on https://sugardextrose.org/projects/dxs/wiki/git On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Martin Dluhos wrote: > On 10/23/2013 02:38 PM, George Hunt wrote: > > After some discussion at the sprint, I looked for documentation of the > workflow > > as I understan

[Server-devel] Question: http-poll ejabberd module

2013-10-15 Thread Anna
is mostly deprecated in favor of http-bind. The http-poll ejabberd module is enabled on the XS 0.6 and XSCE by default, is there any particular functionality that requires http-poll? Something in the presence service maybe? Anna ___ Server-devel mailing l

[Server-devel] Chat on ejabberd from any browser with MUCkl

2013-10-13 Thread Anna
o I prefer to get rid of the background image by commenting this line out in muckl.css: # background: url(images/mucklbg.jpg) repeat; After all this, any user from any browser on most every platform or device, if they're able to hit the XSCE/DXS's Apache server whatsoever, should be able to go to http://schoolserver/chat, or even just the LAN IP, my local example is http://192.168.1.7/chat. Then enter a nick, hit enter, and gossip on the ejabberd server. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

[Server-devel] Deprecated XS utilities in XSCE

2013-10-13 Thread Anna
s-setup-network -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 5.5K May 14 2012 xs-sum -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 1.1K Sep 20 03:15 xs-swapnics -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 1.6K May 14 2012 xs-unpack-xobuild -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 175 Sep 20 03:15 xs-update -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 1.7K Sep 20

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] ansible

2013-10-12 Thread Anna
y scrollback in Pidgin or Psi or Gajim (any chat client that handles XMPP), but my users will literally call me on my telephone to let me know if my server is down. So far with XSCE/DXS testing, I haven't gotten any phone calls. Again, the only stability issue we've run into was when

[Server-devel] SSH Tip for XSCE and DXS Installs on XOs

2013-10-11 Thread Anna
gs. I have problems with script kiddies when running ssh public on port 22, so I typically disallow password logins. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] ansible

2013-10-10 Thread Anna
hub.com/activitycentral/dxs/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.rst > > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Anna wrote: > >> Some quick instructions for installing the DXS. I've only tested on a XO >> 1.75 as the target so far. >> >> On your target machine: >>

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] ansible

2013-10-10 Thread Anna
local #Network xsce_networks: wan: iface: eth0 ip: dhcp lan: iface: eth1 ip: 172.18.96.1 network: 172.18.96.0 netmask: 255.255.224.0 On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Tim Moody wrote: > Anna, you mentioned instructions for doing an ansible install. can you

[Server-devel] The concept of "pushing" content to clients

2013-10-06 Thread Anna
nk Amazon is evil or whatever, but their content delivery system is notable and somewhat revolutionary as far as end users are concerned. Also, take note of this Kindle based project: http://www.worldreader.org/ As we're going into XSCE 0.5 and thinking about value added stuff, lemme just

[Server-devel] [ANNOUNCE] XSCE-0.4 released!

2013-10-03 Thread Anna
Everyone has been waiting patiently for the latest release of School Server Community Edition and here it finally is! The XSCE 0.4 release is ready to go for deployments on most hardware iterations. But say you’re a hobbyist with just a single XO-1 and an old computer for the XSCE? This is a fun

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: Weekly log rotation

2013-09-18 Thread Anna
ls /etc/cron.weekly/ [root@schoolserver] ~ > > > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Anna wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Jon Nettleton >> wrote: >> >>> What does your /etc/logrotate.conf look like? One option for logrotate >>> is to o

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: Weekly log rotation

2013-09-18 Thread Anna
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Jon Nettleton wrote: > What does your /etc/logrotate.conf look like? One option for logrotate is > to only rotate if the logs have reached a certain size. > > My understanding was it was supposed to rotate weekly no matter what. [root@schoolserver] ~ >cat /etc/l

Re: [Server-devel] Weekly log rotation

2013-09-18 Thread Anna
ar/log/maillog /var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/spooler { sharedscripts postrotate /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true endscript } > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:10:39PM -0500, Anna wrote: > > Oops, forgot to

Re: [Server-devel] Weekly log rotation

2013-09-18 Thread Anna
Oops, forgot to copy server-devel On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Anna wrote: > Was weekly log rotation supposed to be a thing? I thought we talked about > it. > > Here's the XSCE on an XO 1.5, running like a champ for this uptime on > xs-config-0.8.4.260.g538839

[Server-devel] XSCE testing note for the xsce-devel repo

2013-09-11 Thread Anna
.com/repos/xsce-rel4.repo into /etc/yum.repos.d. And then edit xsce-rel4.repo to enabled=1 for [xsce-devel]. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] XSCE devel scrum on #schoolserver

2013-09-10 Thread Anna
willingness to publicly host their test XSCE's. It's a lot of fun to have a testing party over IRC! And I mean, come on, out of the entire XSCE testing group, the only person set up to test over the internet is an English major in Alabama? Anna Schoolfield Birmingham On Tue, Sep 10, 2013

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] XSCE devel scrum on #schoolserver

2013-09-03 Thread Anna
But I would during an IRC meeting. The meeting methods are two totally different frames of mind for me and I think they belong on different days. Anna On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Anish Mangal wrote: > I think Tuesday is good. It will help allow some buffer time between the > two meet

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] XSCE devel scrum on #schoolserver

2013-08-31 Thread Anna
I know the policy for #schoolserver is that logs aren't kept, but in the interest of transparency, perhaps we could log "official" #schoolserver meetings. One of the nice things about meeting on IRC vs. Skype is that IRC meetings axiomatically have transcripts. Anna On Sat, Au

Re: [Server-devel] Testing XSCE 3 on XO 1.5 2GB os855

2013-06-14 Thread Anna
I posted how to transfer the /var/cache/yum contents from one XSCE to another a while ago on the wiki. This is what I do to save time when I'm repeatedly installing the XSCE. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.3/Configuring#Manually_saving_yum_cache_for_repeat_installation

Re: [Server-devel] 12 Volt power system for School Servers.

2013-05-29 Thread Anna
le this very afternoon. It's been on my wishlist for a long time, but earlier kernels didn't have support and it is such a PITA to compile the XO kernel. Anna ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] XS Community Edition: XO 1.75 installtion

2013-03-02 Thread Anna
l? > > No Moodle, but the basic set of XS services listed here should work: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.2/Test_Plan Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.lapt

Re: [Server-devel] XS Community Edition: XO 1.75 installtion

2013-03-02 Thread Anna
and start following the install instructions On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 10:23 AM, wrote: > > Must I use an external AP or there is more magic if the XO wirless can > function as this ? > > As far as I know, the XO's wifi chip doesn't support AP mode, so unfortunate

Re: [Server-devel] XS Community Edition: XO 1.75 installtion

2013-03-02 Thread Anna
on. Did the install continue after you got that message? It should have done some other stuff, then after another little while, it should have told you to reboot. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org

[Server-devel] A possible alternative to Pathagar: calibre2opds

2013-01-03 Thread Anna
#x27;s library card or Amazon account to download a lot of ebooks, then she could import those books into Calibre and take them home and serve them up to her students. But that's a moral and legal issue outside our scope. Just an option if Pathagar proves to be too

[Server-devel] Parallel Distributed Shell (pdsh)

2012-12-13 Thread Anna
#x27;ing a syllabus to all her student's XOs, for example), but I haven't managed to get it to work yet. Relevant links: http://code.google.com/p/pdsh/ http://jaclindley.com/2009/04/20/system-administration-pdsh/ http://linux.die.net/man/1/pdsh http://linux.die.net/man/1/pdcp Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] Experiences with 2wire routers

2012-03-27 Thread Anna
the XS, I basically click around in the web GUI and make them as stupid and simple as possible. Oh, check to make sure NAT is turned off, too. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] A quick networking question

2012-02-28 Thread Anna
bit out or redirect them to 172.18.0.1 so they can access the local XS but not get outside. Here's the writeup: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2011-January/005341.html Anyway, it's a thought. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Serve

[Server-devel] Registering to XS stable FC9 0.6 with XO stable FC14 11.2.0

2011-07-24 Thread Anna
6 up until the FC14 11.2.0 build. Are there known issues or workarounds that I've missed? Has anyone been able to register to XS 0.6 with an XO running 11.2.0? Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

[Server-devel] Uploading files to the XS via a simple PHP form

2011-06-15 Thread Anna
unge" with individual upload.html files that point to individual teacher's web directories. As always, comments, suggestions, and criticism welcome. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] OLPC Australia XS concerns

2011-06-10 Thread Anna
support hostapd. The best I've been able to kludge together (back when I used the XO as a portable XS to tote to training sessions) was a USB-Ethernet adapter on eth1 connected to an old Linksys AP. If wifi was available, the XO's WLAN worked as eth0. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham __

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

2011-02-02 Thread Anna
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:28 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. > > In general,

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

2011-02-01 Thread Anna
oing to be a problem on XS 0.6. And if there was a better way to handle the issue. > Log files always need to be watched. > I do agree with you there. I try to look in on my httpd logs every couple of days. And the XS 0.6 logwatch emails are quite informative. I installed alpine, so kee

[Server-devel] Question on number of iptables rules

2011-02-01 Thread Anna
ple seconds to run and they're back in there. Here's my question - is the XS networking going to get wonky with 894 extra iptables rules? I know every incoming connection has to be checked against it, so what's the max count of rules that's a good idea? And is there a better w

Re: [Server-devel] wwwoffle?

2011-01-22 Thread Anna
pipermail/server-devel wwwoffle') Anna has > written a bit of a howto and was keep on working towards making it a > script to run. She's interested in this as well, maybe you can > collaborate? > > Wasn't me! I tried to get it to work the other day on my test server,

Re: [Server-devel] "Administrative" login for political reasons

2011-01-21 Thread Anna
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > > You are hilariously evil >8-)~ > > I think I'll scare new XS admins with "if you have problems with > managing your XS... we'll ask A

[Server-devel] "Administrative" login for political reasons

2011-01-19 Thread Anna
ould prove it via system logs. So that's my workaround for ignorant people who demand "admin" access. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-18 Thread Anna
> > Seconded. Sticking to Fedora 14 would allow a lot more flexibility, keep support mostly on the same page, and lend a certain comfort level to existing admins for upgrading. And there's a lot more online support for Fedora than for CentOS or

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-18 Thread Anna
hat got IP addresses would probably be informative. At least you'd have a quick way to see how many XOs are being brought to school and be able to track that over time. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.lap

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-18 Thread Anna
sshfs from a remote system (there's even a Windows tool for that called dokan). That way you can have the ease of a GUI filesystem tool without the risks of actually running a Window Manager on the server itself. Not to mention installing Gnome and X Windows and all the deps takes a to

Re: [Server-devel] Notes on Flashing the NAND over the LAN

2011-01-17 Thread Anna
pache version on XS 0.6 is a bit long in the tooth. [root@schoolserver ~]# httpd -v Server version: Apache/2.2.9 (Unix) Server built: Jul 14 2008 15:36:56 Anyone have ideas for a workaround? Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mai

Re: [Server-devel] Notes on Flashing the NAND over the LAN

2011-01-16 Thread Anna
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 9:43 PM, James Cameron wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 09:22:19PM -0600, Anna wrote: > > I'm not familiar enough with Apache to know what to edit as far as the > > maximum request duration. Any tips there? > > I think I found evidence in Apac

Re: [Server-devel] Notes on Flashing the NAND over the LAN

2011-01-16 Thread Anna
many, many minutes it complains about "Short read of zdata file" And then "WARNING: The file specified 29489 chunks but wrote only 280 chunks" I'm not familiar enough with Apache to know what to edit as far as the maximum request duration. Any tips there? Anna Schoolfi

[Server-devel] Notes on Flashing the NAND over the LAN

2011-01-16 Thread Anna
n /etc/motd. Then I need only login to the XS to see where I put them so I know where to go for their web interfaces. cat /etc/motd The Router is on 172.18.126.2 The B/G AP is on 172.18.126.3 The Salvation Army AP is on 172.18.126.4 Anna Schoolfield Birmingham

Re: [Server-devel] Schoolserver and eth1

2011-01-16 Thread Anna
'd put .txt as a file extension. Unmount the usb drive. umount /media/usb0 Now you can take that usb drive to your regular computer and copy and paste the contents of those text files in an email for us. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-dev

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

2011-01-12 Thread Anna
ipts/TURN_SQUID_OFF rm -rf /library/cache /etc/sysconfig/olpc-scripts/TURN_SQUID_ON And now it's virginal again, so to speak. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

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

2011-01-12 Thread Anna
ything else, I add the known clients. # Non-XO stuff on dynamic range 172.18.125.0/24 host anna-eeepc-1 {hardware ethernet 00:15:af:ec:9e:46;} host anna-eeepc-2 {hardware ethernet 00:22:43:2e:fe:79;} host tyler-eeepc {hardware ethernet 00:15:af:ec:96:1f;} And because I'm ticked off, and inspi

Re: [Server-devel] Connecting the a Schoolserver via SSH

2010-12-21 Thread Anna
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito wrote: > Anna, > > Thanks. I'll try this out tomorrow. > > I have another question for you. > I was testing the server with about 12 XOs today. They all connected fine > and had internet connections. But the perfor

Re: [Server-devel] Connecting the a Schoolserver via SSH

2010-12-21 Thread Anna
hd restart Now from an XO connected to the XS, you can ssh ger...@172.18.0.1 or ssh gerald@ Enter in your password and you should be greeted with the motd! After you successfully ssh in, you can su root. Sometimes that's not "root enough," though and you might have to 's

Re: [Server-devel] XS on XO Setup as Contingency for Main Power Outage

2010-12-15 Thread Anna
ms and hoped others would find it useful. Not only as a power friendly backup, but it lowers the barriers to entry for running your own Jabber and Apache if you can't dedicate a "real" computer but do have an XO-1 and a spare SD card. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___

[Server-devel] XS on XO Setup as Contingency for Main Power Outage

2010-12-15 Thread Anna
backlight/dcon-bl/brightness Turn the backlight back on: echo 15 > /sys/class/backlight/dcon-bl/brightness ** * Switching over * ** So the power just went out. I hook the inverter up to a car battery and plug my DSL modem into it. Wh

Re: [Server-devel] OLPC XS- Not booting

2010-11-11 Thread Anna
can actually see the stubborn drives in /dev, I'll use gparted or fdisk to format to a single fat32 partition. Then the XS install usually picks it up. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] Jabber presence under NAT & named under DMZ issues

2010-11-09 Thread Anna
ic IPs. Another one of the reasons why I wanted to test this out. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

[Server-devel] Jabber presence under NAT & named under DMZ issues

2010-11-05 Thread Anna
er of these options, that would be very helpful: 1. The XSXO has an IP from my LAN (192.168.1.200 for example) and I can forward 80, 5222, 5223 (or other ports!) to it and the presence service doesn't reset every hour. 2. The XSXO is in the DMZ and named will start up. Anna Schoolfield Bir

Re: [Server-devel] Bridging XS to another network

2010-11-01 Thread Anna
external IP. You can always put Moodle back the way it was. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] Bridging XS to another network

2010-10-30 Thread Anna
Moodle, not being able to register to the XS is a huge issue. Apache access works fine, though. I use ifcfg-eth0-local to set the static IP for eth0 on the XS. Here's my example: IPADDR=192.168.1.20 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 GATEWAY=192.168

Re: [Server-devel] How to configure XS with only one Ethernet port

2010-10-27 Thread Anna
I'll also take a look at that file if I'm moving around physical cards to make sure that what I want to be eth1 is showing up as that and not eth2. My older/cheap hardware can be persnickety. Anna Schoolfield ___ Server-devel ma

Re: [Server-devel] automount external HD

2010-10-16 Thread Anna
t;block", run+="/bin/mount -a" ...It should automagically mount where fstab tells it to. But again, I haven't tested it. Just an idea. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] Daily Reporting on traffic and DHCP leases

2010-04-20 Thread Anna
u -i eth1 Then put this in crontab so vnstat will gather the required data. */5 * * * * vnstat -u Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

[Server-devel] Daily Reporting on traffic and DHCP leases

2010-04-20 Thread Anna
f $DATA > /dev/null ____ I have that in the crontab for 6:45 PM so it's ready for night owls and early risers. 45 18 * * * /usr/local/bin/daily-dhcp-lease-report Rotating the history file really isn't a priority as its one short line of text per day. Thoughts and criticisms are more than welcome. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] Public folders

2010-04-01 Thread Anna
/etc/fstab entries. Not only do I have oodles of space for user and web stuff, but it makes re-installation easier as I don't have to worry about restoring everyone's stuff - just mount the partitions. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___

Re: [Server-devel] turn off backlight on XS-on-XO1

2010-03-02 Thread Anna
booted up and online, then ssh in from another machine. So the ability to turn the backlight off at will would be great. When I have a screen at all, that is. I've been messing around with "XS on XO" on a couple of XOs that have been stripped for parts

Re: [Server-devel] Error message - etc/init.d/callhome restart

2010-02-23 Thread Anna
at it was. Though I do like to check here first to keep from inadvertently breaking something. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

[Server-devel] Error message - etc/init.d/callhome restart

2010-02-23 Thread Anna
XS 0.6 has been sending me a ton of these emails. Is there a fix for this? -- Forwarded message -- From: root Date: Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:00 PM Subject: Cron /etc/init.d/callhome restart To: root /etc/init.d/callhome: line 14: .: /etc/sysconfig/callhome: is a directory /etc/

[Server-devel] XS on XO Kernel Source RPM?

2010-02-06 Thread Anna
rpm is out there, can someone please let me know where to find it? Or if it's in the OLPC kernel git repo, please let me know which branch I need to checkout? Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.

Re: [Server-devel] OpenDNS instructions don't work

2010-02-03 Thread Anna
reful when editing named-xs.conf.in because if I made a typo and then tried to fix it later, I could never get named to start. Ended up just starting over when that happened. Anyway, things seem to be working all right with OpenDNS filtering. In my case anyway. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham

[Server-devel] Upgrading BIOS on an old Dell without Windows or Floppies

2010-01-31 Thread Anna
you're lucky enough to have one), the XS will automagically power back on when power is restored. Here's the the obligatory: YMMV, the process will likely be different with other models, and be careful otherwise you might brick the mobo. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] Postfix vs ssmtp conflict on XS 0.6

2010-01-28 Thread Anna
nce I know this is a crappy script, you won't hurt my feelings if you point out how awful it is. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Anna wrote: > > On a test XS 0.6 box, I installed ssmtp and set u

[Server-devel] Postfix vs ssmtp conflict on XS 0.6

2010-01-28 Thread Anna
anything having uninstalled postfix or will I otherwise run into unexpected issues? Sometimes the XS is kinda weird about stuff like that. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: [Server-devel] Newbie problems

2009-07-21 Thread Anna
ork > connectivity. Had to freshly install. Did you do yum groupinstall? You can see which groups are available with yum grouplist. For example, you can do: yum groupinstall X Window System yum groupinstall GNOME Desktop Environment yum groupinstal

[Server-devel] (Mostly) Enforcing Google Image Safe Search With Squid

2009-06-08 Thread Anna
tives/ch03s03.html I sure hope someone out there has a better idea. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] GUI browser

2009-04-28 Thread Anna
so I'd recommend testing it on your dev box first, if you have one. At the pilot school, I simply connected an XO to the DSL modem/router, opened Firefox, and did my config chores from there - completely bypassing the XS. I have no idea if that would work w

Re: [Server-devel] Filtering and authentication

2009-04-26 Thread Anna
w unknown machines (or play pranks on them as suggested at http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html). Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] updates

2009-01-27 Thread Anna
are the instructions I used when I attempted XS on the XO on an SD card. http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2008-December/002692.html The results were mixed, but seemed to hold promise. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing l

Re: [Server-devel] Browsing school server

2009-01-16 Thread Anna
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Anna wrote: > > Since, at least for now, we're not going to be using moodle in Birmingham > > yet, I renamed > > you break my heart with that, but it's a valid workaroun

Re: [Server-devel] Browsing school server

2009-01-16 Thread Anna
/www/html/ went back to the way it was as in XS 0.4. In fact, on my test server, I have /var/www/html on a separate partition on another physical drive, so it only took an fstab edit to put the web content back. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5.1-dev03 with ejabberd goodness, kernel bling, Access Point workingness... looking for xmas testers

2008-12-31 Thread Anna
ework (which was 55 MB), and Windows Installer 3.1. There's a nice GUI to enter in your ssh login info and mount points. I connected and now /home/anna on the XS is mounted read/write on N: on an XP machine. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Serve

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5.1-dev03 with ejabberd goodness, kernel bling, Access Point workingness... looking for xmas testers

2008-12-29 Thread Anna
2008/12/29 Reuben K. Caron > Hmm.. > > Are you upgrading or doing this from fresh install? > > FWIW, I did a fresh install of the latest and greatest iso and ejabberd worked as it should. I registered two XOs, restarted Sugar, and both of them showed up in the network neig

Re: [Server-devel] New xs-config and a 5.1-dev iso...

2008-12-20 Thread Anna
bottom of this quickly... will anyone help me test it? > I can help test if I have instructions. I'm not busy with anything in particular this morning, anyway. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.lapt

Re: [Server-devel] stability of XS 0.5

2008-12-19 Thread Anna
02 CST 2008 == PHP Fatal error: __clone method called on non-object in /var/www/moodle/web/lib/moodlelib.php on line 1817 == Running cron - Thu Dec 18 16:25:01 CST 2008 == PHP Fatal error: __clone method called on non-object in /var/www/moodle/web/lib/moodlelib.php o

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration unreliable 0.5

2008-12-17 Thread Anna
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > I'm trying to reproduce the problem. Any hints as to how long it takes > for it to happen? What triggers laptops not seeing eachother? I'll > keep trying stuff... but any hint... > I just created a jabber log

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration unreliable 0.5

2008-12-15 Thread Anna
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:47 PM, David Leeming wrote: > I am using USB active antenna (prototype). Has always worked well with 0.4. > I've used both the AA and AP's and it doesn't seem to matter as far as this ejabberd issue goes. > I concur with Anna that if you lea

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration unreliable 0.5

2008-12-15 Thread Anna
if we stayed on long enough, eventually more folks would show up in the buddy list or the XO network home, but it seemed competely random. I think it's gotten better lately, but that's probably subjective. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server

[Server-devel] Amateurish Workaround to Get Bonding to Work With eth1

2008-12-09 Thread Anna
27;s suggestion below, but I've got that in there. options lanbond0 mode=active-backup miimon=100 options mshbond0 mode=active-backup miimon=100 options mshbond1 mode=active-backup miimon=100 options mshbond2 mode=active-backup miimon=100 Of course, you can just run ifenslave lanbond0

[Server-devel] Trying to Understand the Why of Bonding in XS 0.5

2008-12-08 Thread Anna
have newer hardware to test XS 0.5 with, but I haven't gotten bonding to work on what I've got and, if the other emails to this list are any indication, many other folks are having issues. I don't mind trying to figure out stuff, but it sure is nice when things "just work,

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5 Second Attempt at eth1

2008-12-05 Thread Anna
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Anna, what's your NIC? Ideally, we want to know the marketing > make/name/model and what lspci reports for it. Perhaps I can get my > hands on the same hw you have. > I'm currently te

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5 Second Attempt at eth1

2008-12-04 Thread Anna
on: Yes Speed: 10Mb/s Duplex: Half Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: umbg Wake-on: g Current message level: 0x0007 (7) Link detected: yes So, what are the repercussions of this? Anna ___

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5 Second Attempt at eth1

2008-12-04 Thread Anna
ransceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: off Supports Wake-on: umbg Wake-on: g Current message level: 0x0007 (7) Link detected: no Of course, still no pinging anything. In fact, I don't have blinky lights on the NIC anymore or a link light on the AP,

[Server-devel] XS 0.5 Second Attempt at eth1

2008-12-03 Thread Anna
backup miimon=100 Reboot. Tried connecting the AP and the Ubuntu machine again (separately, of course), but nothing happened. Has anyone gotten eth1 on XS 0.5 working? Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-de

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