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 when that's defined? > However, I have to question what is going on here ? > Why do I have to be on the school mesh to backup ? That is a good point. I am trying to be conservative and only call the backup machinery if we are likely to see the XS _and_ have a decent connection to it. Thinking a bit more - if we are seeing the XS over a few hops, maybe we shouldn't try to backup. > If you can contact the backup server specified in > /home/olpc/.sugar/default/config, and it's host key > hasn't changed, you should backup. Right ? Host key is a reasonable safety catch. As long as the XS is not running crazy patched Debian SSH :-/ > 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? ;-) m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel