Steffen Joeris wrote:
> Hi
>
> I will also announce it here. Within the next weeks irc.debian.org will point
> to the OFTC network. Therefore we decided to switch to OFTC with our
> developer channel #debian-edu .
>
> Please notice that the channel on #debian-edu is obsolete and all important
Patrice Neff skrev:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to configure the hosts in a Skolelinux network according
> to our standards. Things I'm thinking about currently:
> - sources.list file changes (use Internet or apt-proxy host in the
> network)
> - Installation of Gnome instead of KDE (probably, not
During the last LTSP developer conference we had two very interesting
presentations of useful software for LTSP.
Ivan Krestic from Kroatia explained how he has used openSSI to build a
cluster of LTSP servers at the Childrens Hospital in Zagreb. His
experience using openSSI to create a scalable LTS
Georg Damm wrote:
>>Dr. Georg Damm wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>we are running venus on our main server and sarge pre00 on the
>>>ltspserver. Everything was stable for at least 9 months. Then /
>>>was running out of space and I decided to create a logical
>>>volume for /opt, moved the data and changed f
Dr. Georg Damm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we are running venus on our main server and sarge pre00 on the
> ltspserver. Everything was stable for at least 9 months. Then / was
> running out of space and I decided to create a logical volume
> for /opt, moved the data and changed fstab accordingly. While NX
During the last developer conference I sat down and tried to understand
how the CD building process works. I m still searching for the
enlightment on that, but in process at least I found out how to make
changes to existing packages and push the changes onto the CD. I wrote
that up, and you can
Petter Reinholdtsen skrev:
I noted on IRC some confusion on the network setup at this weekends
gathering. I hope the checklist is known, and that all the points
there are fulfilled. Can the organizers check
http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/prosjektet/delprosjekt/gathering-checklist.txt>
and
James Yale skrev:
Hi,
In stable the .config for the included kernel for the thin clients was
included in the docs, it doesn't seem to be present in pr04 for
bzImage-2.4.26-ltsp-2 - is the .config available?
In order to work with the kernel the thin clients use you need to work
inside the LTS
Halvor Dahl skrev:
Hello.
The date for the Kongsvinger gathering has now been fixed to
the weekend 26 - 28 August.
Why? And by whom?
Ragnar
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I want to participate in the development gathering in Kongsvinger.
Only the weekend 2 - 4 Sept is possible for me.
My tasks will be making LTSP and Nagios work on the Sarge CD.
I'll probably need a place to sleep, and will join the dinner both on
Friday and Saturday. My travel costs will be abo
Petter Reinholdtsen skrev:
[Andreas Schuldei]
In my oppinion it would be important for some debian-edu people to
show up there.
I am not sure it is easy to get the right people to go there when the
meeting is in July. Who would the right people be? I suspect it
would be good to use such op
I'm observing a puzzling problem. On schools with a number of thin
clients that all use dynamic addresses and the number of clients
approach the number of dynamic addresses allocated in dhcpd.conf, the
dhcpd daemon will after some time report "no free leases" and refuse to
hand out IPs. It seem
Stein Kristiansen skrev:
Hello!
We are two students who are developing an application for the debian Skolelinux
linux distribution. In this application we need to authenticate users against
the existing LDAP database. We are using Java/JSP/Servlets with the Struts
framework to develop the applicati
Ralf Gesel|ensetter skrev:
Hi Ragnar,
thank you for rising that topic. For Ulsrud, I planned to demonstrate nx
access to my school's system. Anyone interested?
Am Donnerstag, 27. Januar 2005 16:50 schrieb Ragnar Wisløff:
I've just had my first session with FreeNX in an LTSP environment
today.
Harald Thingelstad skrev:
tir, 11,.01.2005 kl. 17.28 +0100, skrev Ralf Gesel|ensetter:
Hi there,
I used to use blender on LTPS with KDE 2.x - but it was not really
usable (slow!). Now, as I use the LinEx backports of KDE 3.1, I am able
to install kpovmodeller and innovation3d, too.
Alas, I ca
Ralf Gesel|ensetter skrev:
Hi there,
I used to use blender on LTPS with KDE 2.x - but it was not really
usable (slow!). Now, as I use the LinEx backports of KDE 3.1, I am able
to install kpovmodeller and innovation3d, too.
Alas, I can't use any of those:
kpovmodeller - and also blender, now comp
Jonas Smedegaard skrev:
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I was able to access the pen having restarted floppyd with the
devfs-device after having changed manually the permissions. But after
removing and reinserting the pen no access was
Ole Bendik Kvisberg skrev:
Ragnar Wisloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Did you make it run just of the box?
I'm not 100% sure but I remember starting a local console on the client
to debug something, and I think devfs fooled me in the beginning.
I was able to access the pen havin
Ralf Gesel|ensetter skrev:
Am Mittwoch, 8. Dezember 2004 18:18 schrieb Ralf Gesel|ensetter:
Now I will start another try with nagios.
Nagios looks great. (I just had to add a link to nagios.org into the
manual section!)
As for Availability, there seems no data being collected - but the l
Ole Bendik Kvisberg skrev:
Ragnar Wisloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I've tried in vain to make the ltsp-usb by Hilarie Fernandes work. The
package is installed, the necessary lines added to lts.conf as
documented in man (8) ltsp-usb.
Has anybody been able to make this work reliably?
Y
Jonas Smedegaard skrev:
On 08-12-2004 13:47, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
On Wed, 08 Dec 2004, Klaus Ade Johnstad wrote:
Works for me :-)
Maybe your pen isn't /dev/sda1 but
/dev/sda?
This inconsistency across drives is a real pain. In linux in general my
pendrive is always /dev/sda4. I guess this imp
Gavin McCullagh skrev:
On Wed, 08 Dec 2004, Klaus Ade Johnstad wrote:
Works for me :-)
Maybe your pen isn't /dev/sda1 but
/dev/sda?
This inconsistency across drives is a real pain. In linux in general my
pendrive is always /dev/sda4. I guess this implies an odd partition table.
I'm still unsure
Klaus Ade Johnstad skrev:
Works for me :-)
Maybe your pen isn't /dev/sda1 but
/dev/sda?
Perhaps, but I doubt it. I can mount it in the shell using /dev/sda1
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Life is a reach. Then you gybe.
I've tried in vain to make the ltsp-usb by Hilarie Fernandes work. The
package is installed, the necessary lines added to lts.conf as
documented in man (8) ltsp-usb.
Starting the client in runlevel 3 I can see the usb pen is recognized
and initialised. floppyd is running on the client with flag
Ralf Gesel|ensetter skrev:
Dear List,
this question has been posted on our German users list.
"On tjener, I find this mail in root's mailbox every 30 minutes (see
below). What is its meaning? How can I stop nagios from sending me this
message in case it can be ignored? "
Can't tell myself - so h
Gavin McCullagh skrev:
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Ragnar Wisloff wrote:
| No idea. I assume this will depend on the quality on the sound. My mp3s
| stream at around 128 kbits/sec.
128Kbit while streamed through NAS? Sounds very unlikely.
How informed a comment.
In fairness, he has a point
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| Ralf Gesel|ensetter skrev:
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|> Am Freitag 10 September 2004 14:05 schrieb Ragnar Wisloff:
|>
|>> There are no security implications that I know and care about with
|&
Ralf Gesel|ensetter skrev:
Am Freitag 10 September 2004 14:05 schrieb Ragnar Wisloff:
There are no security implications that I know and care about with
sound. Use headphones with individual volume controls in a classroom
environment.
thank you for the hint (-> plone, howto?) - any idea w
Frédéric BOITEUX skrev:
Hello,
I've read that sound is not enabled by default on skolelinux' thin
clients,
is it possible to enable it ? It seems that LTSP 3.01 offers a ltsp_sound
package, does anybody ever tried to install it ? Just tell me if it's almost
impossible, or a question of ti
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| Petter Reinholdtsen skrev:
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|> [Hilaire]
|>
|>
|>> There is a ltsp-floppyd package for Skolelinux to help for the set
|>> up.
|>> Not sure it is included
Petter Reinholdtsen skrev:
[Hilaire]
There is a ltsp-floppyd package for Skolelinux to help for the set
up.
Not sure it is included in the cd-rom however, but it is in the
Skolelinux apt repository.
It is included on the CD, but not installed by default. I believe
Ragnar have a reason for
Wolfgang Schweer skrev:
I've been using LTSP at school since fall 2001 (remember those good
old days translating LTSP docu?) and I'am using some local apps
because of server hardware is expensive and clients (even old boxes)
tend to be oversized.
lessdisks is a replacement for LTSP, but there h
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Knut Yrvin wrote:
You probably remember that I asked Jim McQuillan at GUADEC 2004 about
how to do improvements on th the LTSP-architecture with NoMachine and
half thick clients.
Hi Knut, hi Ragnar,
why not consider to integrat
Knut Yrvin wrote:
tirsdag 27 juli 2004, 15:25, skrev Knut Yrvin:
The centralised day-to-day best practices is to ensure that
The Ministry of Education and Research can furfill their own
plans in the plan of action for 2004 that accompanies The
Program for Digital Competence 2004-2008.
http://o
Today there has been a thread on the mailing lists about various
projects and tasks that it seems SLX Debian Labs is involved in, and
that some of the project developers and others might get involved with
as well. I am not impressed by the lack of answers to explicit questions
that have been as
Knut Yrvin wrote:
tirsdag 27 juli 2004, 10:35, skrev Finn-Arne Johansen:
- Take contact with the security and maintenance-team in Skolelinux
to get a proposal in how we should "flag" the restart-issue when
doing security patches. A lot of security-fixes don't need restart,
but the kernel-updates do
Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
Le ven 18/06/2004 à 10:42, Kurt a écrit :
please use squidguard, not squid directly
put in squid.conf only a redirect to squidguard
My fault, I was really meaning Squidguard
SquidGuard is actually in place, but not configured. It needs to be
enabled in squid.conf. And th
Ralf skrev:
Dear List,
on day two of our evaluation phase, the pro of centralized
administrations shows its shadows: Aparently there is some problem with
the terminal server (TS), anyway about 30 minutes after rebooting the
TS, the thin clients' (TC) desktop freezes.
Configuration:
Tjener (LD
Ralf skrev:
Am Dienstag, 20. April 2004 14:03 schrieb Bjørn Ove Grøtan:
Of course.. you can only have so many clients per TerminalServer
given the resources. Add as many TerminalServers as you need to serve
your thin clients.
...
Dear Bjoern,
thanks for replying. Obviously I wasn't precise
Martin Herweg skrev:
Hi list!
thanks for the quick answers to my last question:
changing IPs & Hostnames
my next question
(because we install a skolelinux server tomorrow)
is there a script or howto for converting "normal"
Linux users and their passwords (/etc/passwd + /etc/shadow )
into skolelinux
Jonas Smedegaard skrev:
|
| I guess this is true, lots of different clients all behaving the same
Jonas Smedegaard skrev:
Sorry - it was not my intention to question the truth of your info.
No offense taken :-)
Let me put it differently: Do you recall the setup of those thin clients
stabilizing with NFS-swap enabled? Did they have 32MB ram or even less
than that? Did they use 10Mbit or 100Mbit
[Ragnar writes about NFS-swap being used generally on all thin clients,
and that 32MB ram may be too little for school usage]
Please, can you give some details on the experiences: What eats up so
much memory on a thin client?
No, I have not gone into details and done any study on what it is that
There's been an entertaining discussion about this :-)
Let me just make the comment that too many groups will create real
problems, no matter what the naming scheme is. Since NFS will honour no
more than 16 groups, users logging in to a thin client server (which
mounts the home dirs etc. using N
Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
Don't worry about kde or gnome Desktop. After Skolelinux is installed
you can install Gnome 2.2 backported packages. I am using it actually
with 3 thin clients - connected with a 10Mbs link - open to public
access to browse in our library database and in the Internet, and
Herman Robak skrev:
Do we have any free software that can provide decent
virus protection for Windows clients? In mixed environments
anti-virus is pretty much required for the computers running
Windows. We provide Samba, hence we support Windows clients.
We don't have that, but using exiscan and
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