On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:18 AM, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote: > You would need to be very sure that each of the machines had the same > version of Sage (+optional packages) installed, otherwise it would get > very confusing for the user who restarted their worksheet. > > I stopped using server_pool on our machine, since everything worked > *except* magma for some reason to do with file permissions which > no-one on the list was able to successfully help sort out. It does > not seem to make much difference. > > I think the original reason for the server_pool idea was to put put > some small barrier between users messing up eachothers' files, but > tthat has been entirely superseded by more recent developments in the > notebook. I expcet notebook experts will be able to confirm or deny!
Unfortunately, "deny". Using a server_pool with one other account greatly enhances the security of the notebook server because the worksheet processes run as a different user. If you don't use server_pool, you must be sure only to give accounts to a limited range of very trusted users. William > > John > > On 15 June 2010 23:13, Alex Ghitza <aghi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> While looking at the arguments for the notebook() command, the first >> thing that comes to mind when I see "server_pool" is that it would be >> possible to have the notebook server run worksheet processes on >> different machines. However, the docstring and the examples seem to >> suggest that it is (mainly) used to specify a number of users to run the >> processes under, but on the same machine, usually localhost. >> >> Does anyone have any experience with running >> >> server_pool = ['us...@foo', 'us...@bar', ...] ? >> >> If so, could you describe your setup? Are there things I need to be >> careful about in this context? >> >> >> Thanks, >> Alex >> >> >> -- >> Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ >> Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia >> >> -- >> To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >> sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel >> URL: http://www.sagemath.org >> > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
