[Server-devel] XMPP

2014-04-22 Thread John Watlington
Just a quick question: has anybody gotten the XOs to collaborate properly with an XMPP server other than ejabberd ? wad ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE install on cubox

2014-04-22 Thread John Watlington
George, thanks for doing this! On Apr 22, 2014, at 11:48 AM, George Hunt wrote: > Just a small step, but XSCE 5.0 now installs on Cubox. Start with Tim's > image, and comment out ajenti in roles/core/meta/main.yml. I re-rolled > xs-moodle, ds-backup to use cronie rather than vixie-cron, and Py

Re: [Server-devel] constant power "add-tag CP" fails on XO-4?

2014-01-24 Thread John Watlington
On Jan 24, 2014, at 6:36 PM, Adam Holt wrote: > We've relied on this for many years on XO-1s and XO-1.75s (etc) to ensure > small XO servers auto-boot after the inevitable power failures -- and yet > today it (apparently) no longer works. > > Is it possible this does not work on XO-4s, or are

Re: [Server-devel] Root fs on XO1

2013-08-09 Thread John Watlington
Just to clarify a comment that James made: On XO-1, the qualification of the SD card interface was done by Quanta. They seemed to think it worked fine. When I started doing extensive testing of SD cards in preparation for using them in XO-1.5, I discovered that some XO-1s did not have a reliabl

Re: [Server-devel] School networks and electrical equipment damage

2013-06-06 Thread John Watlington
On Jun 6, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > Those of us familiar with setting up school networks (server + switch > + APs) in some of our deployments will be familiar with the > occasional loss of hardware, due to surges in the low quality > electrical supply or whatever, even when the sys

Re: [Server-devel] failed to register

2012-06-04 Thread John Watlington
On Jun 4, 2012, at 8:35 PM, John Watlington wrote: > I suspect that your ISP is assigning 172.18.196.1 to the > XS, which is then confused as to where packets destined > for 172.18.xx.xx should be routed. > eth0 and the other interfaces on the XS should be in separate > subnets.

Re: [Server-devel] failed to register

2012-06-04 Thread John Watlington
: > On 6/4/2012 7:32 PM, John Watlington wrote: >> On Jun 4, 2012, at 7:30 PM, John Watlington wrote: >> >>> Adam, something is wrong with those addresses. >>> The 18.nn.nn.nn subnet is owned by MIT. You shouldn't be >>> using any of them.Perh

Re: [Server-devel] failed to register

2012-06-04 Thread John Watlington
On Jun 4, 2012, at 7:30 PM, John Watlington wrote: > Adam, something is wrong with those addresses. > The 18.nn.nn.nn subnet is owned by MIT. You shouldn't be > using any of them.Perhaps you meant 172.18.nn.nn ? And I never got around to the second part of the comment.

Re: [Server-devel] failed to register

2012-06-04 Thread John Watlington
Adam, something is wrong with those addresses. The 18.nn.nn.nn subnet is owned by MIT. You shouldn't be using any of them.Perhaps you meant 172.18.nn.nn ? wad On Jun 4, 2012, at 6:19 PM, Holt wrote: > On 6/4/2012 3:27 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Jerry Vonau

Re: [Server-devel] XS procurement recommendations (new hardware - Nosy Komba, Madagascar)

2012-04-18 Thread John Watlington
Just a quick reminder that we have XO-1.75 production units available for people who want to work on XS on ARM. Just fill out the form at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program/Project_proposal_form and list XS on ARM XO as the project. If you have any problems getting one this w

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-10 Thread John Watlington
Why not an XO-1.75 ? On Apr 10, 2012, at 8:04 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:03 AM, George Hunt wrote: >> I left my fitpc2 and msi servers in the Philippines, hoping they would be >> pressed into service in a classroom situation. So now I'm in the market for >> another t

Re: [Server-devel] A quick networking question

2012-02-29 Thread John Watlington
On Feb 29, 2012, at 10:05 AM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: > The example DHCP configuration linked likely should be updated to support > multiple MAC address ranges. > > In addition to the 00:17:C4 prefix mentioned in that script, newer XOs may > come with Wifi cards that have a 20:7C:8F prefix, an

Re: [Server-devel] XS on XO

2012-02-29 Thread John Watlington
How is this work going ? On a somewhat related note, I was building a firewall/serve box from an XO-1.5 running os883, and ran into the problem that the stock kernel doesn't have enough of the netfilter options enabled (specifically CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REJECT) to support either the firewall rule

Re: [Server-devel] A quick networking question

2012-02-28 Thread John Watlington
On Feb 28, 2012, at 1:05 PM, Holt wrote: > Clarif: port 80 is (unfort) forwarded thru the XS, for all laptops that > connect over Wifi. > > Traffic across all other ports (incl 443 = https) is thankfully blocked, > though I've no idea why/how unfortunately ;) Sounds like your problem is squid

Re: [Server-devel] Who wrote http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Install_Server?

2012-01-30 Thread John Watlington
On Jan 30, 2012, at 12:40 PM, George Hunt wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm new to this list. > > I met Tony Anderson in Haiti, and again at the San Francisco OLPC Summit in > late 2011. He prevailed upon me to spend some time trying to figure out how > to rebase XS on a more recent Fedora Core.

Re: [Server-devel] Unable to Browse the Internet from XO

2012-01-29 Thread John Watlington
On Jan 27, 2012, at 1:45 PM, HALL,Brian C wrote: > Good Day All, > > I am currently using the 1.5 XO at a couple of schools. I am able to connect > to the school server and hence access moodle instance on the server itself. > However i am unable to browse the internet from the XO. Can you pr

Re: [Server-devel] Setting for Machine to Automatically Reboot

2011-11-15 Thread John Watlington
Every BIOS that I've looked at has one, but they also have custom UIs. You need to halt the boot on that particular computer (press delete, or F1 ? I'm not familiar w. Dells) and wade through the BIOS menus looking for it. Cheers, wad On Nov 15, 2011, at 9:58 AM, HALL,Brian C wrote: > > Good

Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC-AU] e: Regarding my OLPC XS Wishlist (Abhishek Singh)

2011-06-09 Thread John Watlington
On Jun 9, 2011, at 7:51 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On 10 June 2011 00:49, Aleksey Lim wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:24:45AM +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: >>> So far I have counted at least six school server types: >>> >>> * OLPC XS >>> * XS-AU (Australia) >>> * NEXS (Nepal)

Re: [Server-devel] Reasonable number of users sharing an activity instance?

2011-04-06 Thread John Watlington
On Apr 6, 2011, at 2:22 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > What is a reasonable number of users that one can expect to reliably > share one activity? It depends on wireless network bandwidth more than any other factor. > Does an XS schoolserver make a difference in this > regard? Yes. Using lapt

Re: [Server-devel] Help buying server for XS

2011-03-28 Thread John Watlington
On Mar 27, 2011, at 11:28 PM, Guillermo Narvaez wrote: > Reuben, > > The limitations of this equipment are 60 client per AP, we are using 50 or 55 > clients per equipment. This is a dedicated equipment so it need an external > controller. > > With the frequency issue, the APs of the same scho

Re: [Server-devel] callhome script

2011-03-08 Thread John Watlington
callhome was a quick hack. I would suggest doing it "right" instead of recycling it. Cheers, wad On Mar 8, 2011, at 4:21 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: > Found the callhome script on the XS (0.6). Has anyone used it in the > field? Is it documented/recommended? I'm looking at it as an > alternative to

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

2011-01-12 Thread John Watlington
The best iptables hack like this I've seen routed "extraneous" connections through a transparent web proxy which flipped all images (swapped left and right). Cheers, wad On Jan 12, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 10:03 -0600, Anna wrote: >> I like to leave the AP o

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

2010-12-15 Thread John Watlington
On Dec 15, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Anna wrote: > Sorry this is so long, but I thought I'd post this in case someone else > needed something similar. Also, any suggestions to make this more efficient > are more than welcome. > > How I set up an "emergency use" XS on an XO-1 > > Since I run a public

Re: [Server-devel] Firstboot modules

2010-08-27 Thread John Watlington
On Aug 26, 2010, at 8:04 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > StPepper, > > forget about anaconda :-) I want to _reduce_ as much as reasonable > what we do in anaconda/kickstart. > > Let's focus on this: > > - some stuff in current kickstart %post won't be needed for xs-0.7 > > - some stuff in curre

Re: [Server-devel] wifi setup

2010-08-03 Thread John Watlington
I was under the impression that this required 802.11F capable APs to work properly. But I'm no expert. Anyone better informed care to educate me ? Cheers, wad On Aug 3, 2010, at 11:48 PM, James Cameron wrote: > Different OLPC OS builds present access points with same essid in > different ways.

Re: [Server-devel] eth0 Issue on Acer Aspire One

2010-04-10 Thread John Watlington
>From the intertubes, it looks like the AAO has an Atheros 5K chipset. Lots of problems reported with the drivers, but people have gotten it to work with Fedora 9. E.g.: http://www.mail-archive.com/ath5k-us...@lists.ath5k.org/msg00131.html Good luck, wad On Apr 10, 2010, at 10:02 PM, Andra DuPo

Re: [Server-devel] Upgrading XO build 656 failed

2010-04-10 Thread John Watlington
This is the wrong list for such a question, it is for questions about the school server. Your question should be posted to , where the right people are more likely to see it. If you aren't a member of either list, the message is held for moderation (and our moderators are slow). You can add yours

Re: [Server-devel] Web Caching for Areas with Intermittent

2010-04-09 Thread John Watlington
On Apr 9, 2010, at 8:38 PM, John Watlington wrote: > Last time I looked into this, apache's proxy was solely a reverse proxy, > and useless for our purposes. That is no longer true, but the associated > mod_cache module still appears to be experimental. > In any case, squid c

Re: [Server-devel] Web Caching for Areas with Intermittent

2010-04-09 Thread John Watlington
Last time I looked into this, apache's proxy was solely a reverse proxy, and useless for our purposes. That is no longer true, but the associated mod_cache module still appears to be experimental. In any case, squid currently provides the forward proxy/caching service on the XS. The issue is th

Re: [Server-devel] ssh connection to XS Server

2010-03-29 Thread John Watlington
On Mar 30, 2010, at 2:10 AM, David Mul wrote: > Hi, > > my name is David Mul and I'm working with David Leeming on the OLPC project > in Papua New Guinea. I was trying to login to the XS server using terminal > activity on the XO through ssh but it kept giving me this message "Permission > de

Re: [Server-devel] Web Caching Issues

2010-03-21 Thread John Watlington
You don't really want to disable or move the idmgr. All the laptop software builds will try to contact it in order to register themselves. Moving it would require doing a special software build for all the XO laptops in your school, and providing a separate update path wad On Mar 21, 2010,

Re: [Server-devel] Web Caching Issues

2010-03-16 Thread John Watlington
turn on DNS server logging? You increment the trace level using the remote name daemon controller: Something like: sudo rndc trace 5 > Andy > > On Mar 16, 2010, at 11:06 PM, John Watlington wrote: > >> >> When you turn on offline mode, you are just handling >>

Re: [Server-devel] Web Caching Issues

2010-03-16 Thread John Watlington
When you turn on offline mode, you are just handling the HTTP requests. There are other network operations which have to happen before hand which probably aren't being "offlined" properly. What happens to DNS in the offline scenario ? If your clients are all properly pointed at the school serv

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration server for existing network

2010-03-15 Thread John Watlington
On Mar 15, 2010, at 1:18 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:09 AM, John Watlington > wrote: >> And indeed, the XS services are intended for such reuse. I'm not >> sure >> how many patches to the stock ejabberd are still needed... > >

Re: [Server-devel] GNOME hesitance build 112

2010-03-14 Thread John Watlington
What is your power management setting ? Unfortunately, I don't believe you can see this from GNOME, and I don't know the new powerd file triggers used in os112. Please trac this, I believe you are seeing the laptop suspend, then resume. Cheers, wad On Mar 14, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Sameer Verma wrot

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration server for existing network

2010-03-14 Thread John Watlington
On Mar 15, 2010, at 12:06 AM, James Cameron wrote: > I don't know XS very well, but if ejabberd is all you need why not > take > the ejabberd configuration from XS sources and deploy that on an > otherwise vanilla instance? And indeed, the XS services are intended for such reuse. I'm not sur

Re: [Server-devel] XS on Mac Mini

2010-03-02 Thread John Watlington
On Mar 2, 2010, at 9:48 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:40 PM, John Watlington > wrote: >> It would be interesting to hear what the remaining hurdles are. > > Not many. There are good bootable images for F11/F12 on ARM. Current > XS is on F9, for

Re: [Server-devel] XS on Mac Mini

2010-03-02 Thread John Watlington
It would be interesting to hear what the remaining hurdles are. The Kirkwood ARM processor in the guruplug should be well supported by the current Fedora release --- this may be mostly a matter of moving to an F12 base. My main concern with the guruplug would be the external USB disks (overheati

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

2010-02-23 Thread John Watlington
Remove the cron script for callhome, located in /etc/cron.d. It isn't needed for your closely monitored setup, and if needed should be revamped. Cheers, wad On Feb 23, 2010, at 4:32 PM, Anna wrote: > XS 0.6 has been sending me a ton of these emails. Is there a fix > for this? > > --

Re: [Server-devel] How to setup wireless mesh network for School server

2010-01-27 Thread John Watlington
School server installations using active antennas are currently non-existant. As the school server really wants to be a gateway, you will need two network interfaces on your laptop. You will need to connect one of those to a WiFi AP for the XO(s) to connect to. Theoretically, you should be abl

Re: [Server-devel] Backup of user home

2009-09-14 Thread John Watlington
On Sep 15, 2009, at 1:12 AM, Raul Gutierrez Segales wrote: > On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 19:43 -0400, John Watlington wrote: >> You are correct. Since your backup script by definition needs to >> read ALL data, >> regardless of ownership or permissions, you will have to run

Re: [Server-devel] Backup of user home

2009-09-14 Thread John Watlington
You are correct. Since your backup script by definition needs to read ALL data, regardless of ownership or permissions, you will have to run it with superuser priviledges. Why don't you consider using the rsync server, instead of invoking it through a user ? John On Sep 14, 2009, at 3:

Re: [Server-devel] /library partition

2009-07-18 Thread John Watlington
On Jul 16, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > Any documentation on what lives in /library and how to make it useful? The idea behind /library was that the school server needed someplace to place large collections of content and user data. While some people have talked about backing up /lib

Re: [Server-devel] IP addressing + XO MPP connectivity

2009-07-06 Thread John Watlington
Daniel, If you are getting a self-assigned IP address, it is because the laptop is not discovering the MPP. This is probably due to a short cut in the MPP discovery process. The original process was: - Discover the MPP by broadcasting an MPP discovery request using the MPP anycast MAC addre

Re: [Server-devel] Filtering and authentication

2009-04-27 Thread John Watlington
On Apr 27, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Reuben K. Caron wrote: > Anna wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Reuben K. Caron >> wrote: >> >> As far as limiting the internet connection to authorized XOs, >> that's an >> issue we're probably going to run into at some point once we >> broaden the

Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall link broken?

2009-03-20 Thread John Watlington
The OLPC web-based git interface was changed, due to security holes in the previous one. Unfortunately, links into it still haven't been changed. On Mar 20, 2009, at 1:17 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: > http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/xs-livecd;a=blob;f=util/ > mkusbinstall;hb=HEAD Git it in

Re: [Server-devel] thoughts on registering SoaS with an XS and moodle integration

2009-03-12 Thread John Watlington
On Mar 12, 2009, at 9:55 AM, Hamilton Chua wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to ask what the plan is for allowing Sugar running on > hardware other than an XO to register with an XS. It is encouraged. > I had a quick look at /usr/bin/registration-server in the XS and > schoolserver.py in a Sugar

Re: [Server-devel] Serving 400+ students w/ a single central XS - ejabberd nightmare?

2009-03-10 Thread John Watlington
If you aren't going to place school servers in the actual schools, and insist on centralizing them, the hardware recommended by Sameer is a good idea. My argument has always been that you want local web caching and content, and that an XS shouldn't be that much more expensive than the above h

Re: [Server-devel] @a...@...?

2009-03-05 Thread John Watlington
e thus running into the firewall. Make the above changes and stick with your existing AP installation. I think you should have a working configuration now. Please keep the list informed. We want to know when installations work, as well as when they fail! Cheers, wad > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9

Re: [Server-devel] @a...@...?

2009-03-05 Thread John Watlington
dito wrote: > > Wad, > > Martin says that you and Andrew B. posted notes about adding a > schoolserver to an existing network. Can you direct me to these notes? > I am so looking forward to getting this to work. > > Thanks so much. > > Gerald > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at

Re: [Server-devel] rsync on xs-dev

2009-02-12 Thread John Watlington
Currently only through ssh. I assume you mean an rsync daemon, serving up the xs images ? I think that could be arranged... wad On Feb 12, 2009, at 6:53 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > Does xs-dev.laptop.org support rsync? > > Sameer > -- > Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. > Associate Professor of Informatio

Re: [Server-devel] XO

2009-01-22 Thread John Watlington
Sorry about that. I was finally cleaning out the moderators queue where Jerry's original request ended up. He was using an alternate email address, and resubmitted four minutes later using his correct one... The good news is that when this happens I flag your alternate email address as val

Re: [Server-devel] Offline moodle notes in moodle.org

2008-10-14 Thread John Watlington
I've talked to Google specifically about using Gears on the XO. Once they understood OLPC's goals and operating environment, they didn't think Gears was appropriate. It was really designed for constant connectivity. That doesn't mean Google should support Gears in a BitFrost environment (for th

Re: [Server-devel] Memory use with SSL connections

2008-10-07 Thread John Watlington
Until Sugar has a better model for collaboration, anything over about 500 users is moot. (Thanks for testing it all the way up to 2K users). The problem is that the laptop UI will try to show all the users on the server in the neighborhood view... Can you try to connect an XO to the server wi

Re: [Server-devel] physical security issue

2008-10-07 Thread John Watlington
eed not be secure. Cons: Price, and of course, laptops can be >> stolen. But it does put the server in the hands of a presumably >> trusted individual in the community. >> >> -walter >> >> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Sameer Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >&g

Re: [Server-devel] physical security issue

2008-10-07 Thread John Watlington
You keep pushing for centrally hosted school servers. Are you sure you don't work for the phone company ? Again, unless you have a 100 Mbit connection from the school to the upstream ISP, you will need something with a disk and a significant amount of memory present in the school. I don't disagr

Re: [Server-devel] What's cooking in the XS pot this week (2008-10--01)

2008-10-02 Thread John Watlington
On Oct 2, 2008, at 11:51 PM, Bryan Berry wrote: > Greg, > > We will be setting up two labs here in Nepal, one in the next couple > weeks and likely one in the first week of November at Nepal's Dept of > Education. Depending on our experiences in those labs, we want to roll > out a new version of

Re: [Server-devel] Network address for activation - Fwd: [Techteam] Activating laptops from the school server

2008-08-29 Thread John Watlington
DHCP was not recognizing msh0 interfaces brought up after DHCP was started. Instead of bringing DHCP down/up on every networking device insertion, you can use a bridge to isolate the issue. DHCP is happy --- it finds all its network interfaces at boot time. And whenever a msh device is inserted

Re: [Server-devel] Debugging network scripts (from udev and explicit ifup invocation)

2008-08-27 Thread John Watlington
The problem is that the network config script needs to be brought up before networking is brought up. And networking is brought up before syslog is brought up. I didn't find any solution, and instead debugged networking on already booted systems. I originally renamed all the interface with nice

Re: [Server-devel] resolv.conf

2008-08-26 Thread John Watlington
On Aug 26, 2008, at 4:47 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > That sounds like network_config crashed on you. network_config is > responsible for creating /etc/resolv.conf.in and then domain_config > will do the rest. On xs-0.4, we call domain_config at install time > (and it defaults to random.xs.l.o).

[Server-devel] xs-config replacement strategy

2008-08-26 Thread John Watlington
The proposed change to the operation of the xs-config package seem sane, with a few comments: The make-a-replacement strategy is the crucial one. I have hesitations about the xs-config.make file used: - Multiple will be needed, in each directory with changed files. - Getting a correct config n

[Server-devel] resolv.conf

2008-08-26 Thread John Watlington
I've figured out more about why my first install of 0.4 went so badly. For some reason, the network interfaces weren't configured properly on first boot (even though the files were in the right places). In conjuction with having the cable to my wired net plugged into the LAN port, nothing was hap

Re: [Server-devel] AP with fixed IP address

2008-08-20 Thread John Watlington
I think Jerry misunderstood your question. You can assign the AP an address from the range 172.18.1.1 to 172.18.1.254. This is within the address range assigned to eth1 (in /etc/sysconfig/ network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1) but outside of the range that DHCP is set to provide on that interface (.0.

Re: [Server-devel] Fuloong2F (lemote.com) : gr oup buy/achat groupé

2008-08-11 Thread John Watlington
I'm not sure what the Linux support for that machine (MIPS) will be. I gave one to Dennis Gilmore (late of OLPC, now at RedHat) and he said he was very happy with it as a server. wad On Jul 31, 2008, at 7:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > xe at OLPC France are planning to test the insta

Re: [Server-devel] Missing XOs in neighbourhood view using XS

2008-07-22 Thread John Watlington
There are two possible reasons. The first is that you are still using the mesh, and mesh routing with that number of laptops is capricious at best. The second is a known problem exists which can also cause this: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6884 We need to get ProcessOne to fix this problem

Re: [Server-devel] eth0 statii IP

2008-07-03 Thread John Watlington
On Jul 3, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Tim Moody wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Martin Langhoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Tim Moody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 12:57 PM > Subject: Re: [Server-devel] eth0 statii IP The script which performs network configu

Re: [Server-devel] Issue with 2 B4s and a C2

2008-07-03 Thread John Watlington
Looking at the logs, the server is seeing some of the laptop's DHCP discovery attempts, and responding properly. The laptop doesn't seem to be seeing the responses reliably (sometimes it responds with a REQUEST, sometimes it doesn't). If it requests the assigned address, sometimes it doesn

Re: [Server-devel] Laptop XS working

2008-07-01 Thread John Watlington
On Jul 1, 2008, at 6:38 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:07 PM, David Leeming > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I then registered all three, this was uneventful. The register >> option no >> longer appears on the XOs. >> >> However, the result (unless this is a red herring) i

Re: [Server-devel] Target price and quantitiy

2008-06-22 Thread John Watlington
On Jun 22, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Christopher Niemöller wrote: > Hi, > > I was playing around with some embedded computing and rugged hardware > and got some questions. > > Whats the target price for the school server? Around 500 USD for a server plus 500GB disk. Networking (access points and switche

Re: [Server-devel] Ultra Mobile XO Server

2008-06-22 Thread John Watlington
This is a regular project around OLPC. Nobody has found time to finish it, but a new person regularly takes it on... Tyler was the latest to try, Scott had worked on it some as well. The simple part everybody is working on is building an external disk that is basically XS (F7) plus the OLPC kern

Re: [Server-devel] Help on the School_server

2008-06-11 Thread John Watlington
On Jun 11, 2008, at 10:47 AM, Yama Ploskonka wrote: > I was considering that defining "sub units within the school" might > be a workaround for now, but I have no idea how that can be done. > By MAC address?. > Please, people who know how that can be done, do tell us. Each sub unit would ha

Re: [Server-devel] Help on the School_server

2008-06-11 Thread John Watlington
On Jun 5, 2008, at 4:50 AM, eskender andualem wrote: > Hello All, > > We are trying to configure the school server in Ethiopia but we > found some documents which says we can only support > <120 computers with one school server and three active antennas.Is > it the only capacity which we can

Re: [Server-devel] Problems installing XS on new system for Uruguay

2008-06-05 Thread John Watlington
On Jun 5, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Tony Pearson wrote: > Uruguay = EduBlog/Ceibal/Greg Smith. I am building the server to > Greg's request, so whatever he is now calling this project that is > what it is. Uruguay == Ceibal Uruguay != EduBlog Uruguay != Greg Smith Your statement worries me, as Ce

Re: [Server-devel] uruguay server hardware

2008-06-03 Thread John Watlington
all countries in there, to > have a knowledge database. > > > > On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:47 AM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > There has been some questions about what hardware Uruguay is using > for school servers. > They are placing a secon

Re: [Server-devel] Debian help needed

2008-06-03 Thread John Watlington
On Jun 3, 2008, at 7:42 AM, John Watlington wrote: > > Anybody out there want to help get a school server running on Debian ? > We need a debian package for the identity manager: > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/School_Identity_Manager > http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes (was: Re: The road towards xs-0.3 - update)

2008-06-03 Thread John Watlington
What do we provide for the schools which don't have internet access right now ? Should the XS contain some blog hosting software which can actually host the pages created by this tool ?(Pardon my ignorance of whether Moodle already contains such.) wad On Jun 3, 2008, at 9:27 AM, Greg Smith

[Server-devel] Debian help needed

2008-06-03 Thread John Watlington
Anybody out there want to help get a school server running on Debian ? We need a debian package for the identity manager: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/School_Identity_Manager http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/idmgr (Just to forestall any rumors, this is needed so that Uruguay's school servers wi

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes (was: Re: The road towards xs-0.3 - update)

2008-06-02 Thread John Watlington
On Jun 2, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) wrote: > Hi Martin, > > Thanks a lot for the review. I copied your reply to the Uruguay > edublog > volunteer list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I will use that list to work with end users and for internal project > tracking. That said, anyone can joi

Re: [Server-devel] Weird Device Recognition in 163

2008-06-02 Thread John Watlington
On Jun 2, 2008, at 7:16 AM, James Cameron wrote: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 08:22:40PM +1000, Martin Langhoff wrote: >> That makes bit more sense. A bad pci connection... but I'm not sure >> why it didn't come up with the right ip addr. I do wonder whether the >> fedora tools have anything to auto

Re: [Server-devel] Weird Device Recognition in 163

2008-06-02 Thread John Watlington
On May 30, 2008, at 5:34 PM, Anna wrote: >>> The other weird device thing involved the second NIC. The first >>> one gets recognized as eth0 just fine. However, the second one is >>> seen as dummy0. I put the hardware address for the second NIC in >>> both /etc/sysconfig/olpc-scripts/ifcfg-

Re: [Server-devel] Problem registering a admin user for jabber.

2008-05-27 Thread John Watlington
And the command must be run as root. On May 27, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Berkowitz Andrew (Project Connect) wrote: > The host FQDN in the ejabberd.cfg must exactly match the [EMAIL PROTECTED] > used > with ejabberdctl register statement. Both must exactly match what the > server returns with hostname

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 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
> incompatible package, should your packages still work? There lie uncharted waters. Dennis might be able to help with that answer. I suspect that the answer is probably yes, given the limited number of packages you are trying. > Thank you > > -Original Message- > From: Jo

Re: [Server-devel] XS software compatibility question

2008-05-20 Thread John Watlington
" -kernel inetrc "/etc/ejabberd/ > ejabberd.inetrc" > -noshell -noinput > > > > -Original Message----- > From: John Watlington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 11:39 PM > To: Berkowitz Andrew (Project Connect) > Cc: John Watlington;

Re: [Server-devel] XS software compatibility question

2008-05-19 Thread John Watlington
On May 19, 2008, at 6:18 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Berkowitz Andrew (Project Connect) > > The installation was perfect with the full Fedora 7 installation. >> >> Is it possible to install all of OLPC's customizations on top of a >> stock >> Fedora installatio

Re: [Server-devel] Permissions in /sys/class/net/msh0

2008-05-15 Thread John Watlington
On May 15, 2008, at 10:56 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 2:50 PM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Ouch. That sounds familiar from early days of debugging the install. >> It sounds like your Frankenmachine is a 586, and needs the re

Re: [Server-devel] Permissions in /sys/class/net/msh0

2008-05-15 Thread John Watlington
On May 15, 2008, at 10:20 PM, Anna wrote: > Thank you for the quick response, wad. I should have emailed > earlier instead of wasting all this time. At least I've learned > more about the networking setup. > >> wad: >> What was the error when installing 163 ? We want to know about >> th

Re: [Server-devel] Permissions in /sys/class/net/msh0

2008-05-15 Thread John Watlington
On May 15, 2008, at 9:31 PM, Anna wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been at this for days now and am only emailing out of > desperation. Hi, Anna. Good to hear from you again! Please don't wait until you are desperate to drop us a note. > I'm on server build 161 (the 163 install didn't work on my h

Re: [Server-devel] Fwd: Installing 1.63

2008-05-15 Thread John Watlington
the language and time zone via a blue > background > text-mode UI. > > -Original Message- > From: Martin Langhoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:12 PM > To: Berkowitz Andrew (Project Connect) > Cc: John Watlington; server-devel > S

[Server-devel] Fwd: Installing 1.63

2008-05-14 Thread John Watlington
Can anybody suggest the cause for this ? I haven't seen this problem before. wad Begin forwarded message: > From: "Berkowitz Andrew (Project Connect)" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: May 14, 2008 11:14:11 AM EDT > To: "John Watlington" <[EMA

Re: [Server-devel] Possible Jabber Problem on Server

2008-05-14 Thread John Watlington
Nothing but ejabberd needs to be uninstalled. Use the --nodeps to force this. Just reinstalling the package doesn't rebuild the database. You will have to manually clean out the database before reinstalling... I have no experience with uninstalling xs-pkgs and xs-config. I doubt it would reins

Re: [Server-devel] Possible Jabber Problem on Server

2008-05-13 Thread John Watlington
I was very explicit in my instructions: 1) Remove the package. 2) Remove the database. 3) Install the package. Installing the package probably rebuilds the database. If you re-install without removing the old database, the re-install seems to re-use the old database. John On May 12, 2008, at 1:

Re: [Server-devel] Possible Jabber Problem on Server

2008-05-08 Thread John Watlington
On May 8, 2008, at 5:15 PM, Andrew Berkowitz wrote: > Or, how do I just wipe out the mnesia database and start over? > I believe rm -r /var/lib/ejabberd/* ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/ser

[Server-devel] Build 163

2008-05-08 Thread John Watlington
Build 163 has finally been smoke tested on a few platforms and released. This should be used for any new installations. This is a bug fix release of build 160, to ensure that ejabberd collaboration works properly when the school server can't be resolved using the DNS root servers (most cases !)

Re: [Server-devel] Possible Jabber Problem on Server

2008-05-07 Thread John Watlington
On May 7, 2008, at 10:28 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:19 AM, Berkowitz Andrew (Project Connect) >> Greetings from New York. > > "G'day mate" from New Zealand! > >> Although the short hostname, schoolserver, has stayed the same, >> the domain >> has changed from 00b000.

Re: [Server-devel] Odd Libertas load error

2008-05-06 Thread John Watlington
On May 6, 2008, at 4:12 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:38 AM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Dennis correctly debugged the problem. This is due to the >> attempt to produce a build for 586 machines, hoping to >> run o

Re: [Server-devel] Odd Libertas load error

2008-05-06 Thread John Watlington
Dennis correctly debugged the problem. This is due to the attempt to produce a build for 586 machines, hoping to run on the VIA C3. I'm building 162 right now, which should fix this problem. I became aware of it last night. I guess all the build 161 installs I did were AP based... I'm also t

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration between schools

2008-05-02 Thread John Watlington
On Apr 30, 2008, at 4:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would love to hear what are those "economic reasons". I am sure > that most of you know that if they are > connecting to the Internet then the "big" cost is paid. The rest > are peanuts. So... what are those "economic reasons" to >

Re: [Server-devel] Odd Libertas load error

2008-05-01 Thread John Watlington
On May 2, 2008, at 12:57 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Testing installation of a new build today with a hand-me-down Shuttle > machine I got a strange error from the Libertas driver. > > libertas: version magic '2.6.23.1-21.fc7 SMP mod_unload 686 4KSTACKS ' > should be '2.6.23.1-21.fc7 SMP mod_unl

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