S: CD Server not only for samba

2007-06-11 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Dear list, sometimes it is nice to provide entire cd images from your file server. This is not only the case with install cds, but also with collections of artwork, video cds and more. I remember people mentioning some ready-to-go cd manager that has the following features: Mount a selection o

Re: Register a domain for the Stopmotion program? E.g. stopmotion.org?

2005-03-30 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Mittwoch, 30. März 2005 15:12 schrieb Herman Robak: > The stopmotion project fills a niche where there is modest > competition and few contenders.  I think it deserves a higher > visibility, like a dedicated domain name, e.g. www.stopmotion.org. >  That domain would still resolve to developer.s

Re: SOLVED: problem with a server/ Schulserver arbeitet sehr träge

2005-03-22 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Montag, 21. März 2005 23:54 schrieb Klaus Ade Johnstad: > But what was the actuall problem? Hi, seems like intel x86 reached its 4 gig memory limit - and the kernel didn't handle it (should it?). 2^32 = 2^2 x 2^30 = 4 Gigabyte. For dummies, we should state the exact place where to put this li

Re: problem with a server

2005-03-21 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Montag, 21. März 2005 13:20 schrieb Martin Herweg: > any ideas ? hi martin, gg: smp kernel slow brought (among others) this hint: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0011.0/0258.html > I bet it's the mtrr bugs. Take a look in /proc/mtrr. Someone suggested > that if you disable the

Moodle! not Mambo on Tjener -> LDAP ?

2005-03-21 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Montag, 21. März 2005 13:06 schrieb Harald Poppek: > I think it was Moodle we startet to learn, not Mambo Oops, sorry, yes, M != M :) (always mixing those two up)

Mambo on Tjener -> LDAP ?

2005-03-21 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi there, during the last weekend we played along with Mambo LMS. It looks easy to install and run within a Skolelinux network. I consider to do so - and wonder if anyone here did try to setup Mambo to authentificate against Tjener's LDAP? Any documentations for that? Cheers Ralf. -- To UN

Re: Debian-Edu at Russia and CeBIT

2005-03-21 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hello Andreas, at Chemnitz I attended the discussion part of your presentation. Remember the elderly guy who just wouldn't stop mourning: it is your task to address the physicians - they won't make it to find debian-edu? Well, now it seems, you gave it a thought, bringing debian-edu and -med

Re: (re-)activate webmin-ldap-netgroups?

2005-03-15 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Mittwoch, 16. März 2005 00:31 schrieb Ralf Gesel|ensetter: > I would be glad for any hint. Meanwhile I can give a hint myself: if I log in to webmin as a different user than root (a special account which includes the netgroup module, too) I _can_ use the module - even though the link (

(re-)activate webmin-ldap-netgroups?

2005-03-15 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi there, my Tjener is a Venus installation (IIRC), somehow my webmin-ldap-netgroups does not react anymore to mouseclicks within webmin. Don't ask how I killed it. I have to add a new machine (workstation), so I must find a way. I would be glad for any hint. Here are some of my findings: ap

Re: problem with creating a machine account (sarge)

2005-03-15 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Dienstag, 15. März 2005 23:07 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > On 15-03-2005 21:17, Ralf Gesel|ensetter wrote: > > The wlus password is not the same as the wlus password. > > Typo? :-) indeed - should be: The wlus password is not the same as the _samba_ password.

Re: 0.1.1 release of stopmotion

2005-03-15 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Sonntag, 13. März 2005 06:34 schrieb Bjoern Erik Nilsen: > The 0.1.1 release of stopmotion is now available for download at our > website: > http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/studentgrupper/2005-hig-stopmotion/ Hi Bjoern, thank you very much, looks promising. Tried to test it in a Venus (d

Re: problem with creating a machine account (sarge)

2005-03-15 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Dienstag, 15. März 2005 19:19 schrieb bernd: > now, when i try to bind a machine (xp-pro) to get memeber of the > domain i get the following error > domain=skolelinux > asking about user who is allowed = root   passwd=smbadminpw(it works > with wlus) > xp shows me, that there is no user root fou

Re: Why CMS instead of integration with Debian web?

2005-03-14 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
hey jonas, how are you. I appreciate your ivestigative approach. it throws another light onto the cms debate, rather from a developer angle. I reckon this really important, as the interchange between coding developers and the community of supporting users tends to be too low in general. Am Mo

Re: Authenicating users against LDAP

2005-03-11 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Freitag, 11. März 2005 11:45 schrieb Finn-Arne Johansen: > Cant you tell java to drop the certificate test ? I could imagine that one had to treat the exception thrown in the right manner to do so...

Re: Yes, I will participate in the development gathering the 15-18th of April

2005-03-10 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
outh, I am flexible enough to go for it! Am Dienstag, 8. März 2005 22:22 schrieb Ralf Gesel|ensetter: > As it will be to late for public transports from ATH to NAF on > Friday, I will find another way to get there. If there are further > participiants with that problem, we might fin

Re: Partimage on sarge

2005-03-09 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi Bernd Am Montag, 7. MÃrz 2005 10:30 schrieb bernd: > But there is no packet , so i have to use another source. > Before i do it, i want to ask, if someone have done it .. No, I didn't try partimage, yet. Anywey, according to http://apt-get.org/ these are sources for apt packages: deb http://

Yes, I will participate in the development gathering the 15-18th of April

2005-03-08 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi guys, I am happy to announce having found a flight that matches my schedule, after all: LH1187 Fr, 15. Apr. 2005 17:05 PAD 18:30 MUC LH3394 Fr, 15. Apr. 2005 19:05 MUC 22:30 ATH LH3393 So, 17. Apr. 2005 16:20 ATH 17:50 MUC LH1188 So, 17. Apr. 2005 19:10 MUC 20:30 PAD (Fa

Re: We are asking the teachers: [Re: choosing software applications]

2005-03-07 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Freitag, 4. März 2005 08:43 schrieb Knut Yrvin: > The main problem is that the teachers don't give an real answer what > they want or expect from an applications when we aks them. A lot of > activeties is therefore reorganised to learn the teacher how to make > choices when looking for applicati

Re: choosing software applications

2005-03-03 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi Bernd Am Donnerstag, 3. März 2005 14:48 schrieb bernd: > An Installation of the workstation with more questions about using > software could bee a way, but that is a way with many work for you- This would be especially more "work" for unskilled teachers who are meant to be able install the sy

Re: choosing software applications

2005-03-03 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi Am Donnerstag, 3. März 2005 16:37 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > We should not seek ways to strip Konquerer from getting installed, > but instead seek ways to prioritize Mozilla over Konquerer (for web > browsing only, off course - Mozilla is unsuited for file browsing). Well, konqueror get's bet

Re: announcement list for skolelinux/debian-edu ?

2005-03-03 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Mittwoch, 2. März 2005 22:17 schrieb Mari Wang: > Thoughts?  Suggestions?  Comments? Hello Mari. You named the pro`s for a announcement list. Even though I agree to most of your arguments, I experienced one con as well: The central decision to be made will be if to restrict announcements to

Re: Call for artworks: wallpapers, banners etc.

2005-03-02 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
. Februar 2005 13:52 schrieb Ralf Gesel|ensetter: > Apart from wallpapers, there could be some interest for banners: > 486 x 60 seems to be a common dimension for this, cf. e.g. > http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/lt5/presse/banner/ > > Curious for your outstanding results ;) --

Re: Personal ideas

2005-03-01 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Dear Alan, welcome to this list - and thank you for contributing ;) Am Dienstag, 1. März 2005 13:59 schrieb Alan E. Davis: > I subscribed to this list because i am an educator, and I have been > using GNU/Linux exclusively for well over 10 years, and Debian for at > least 10. I am not a develope

Re: article over Skolelinux in OpenMagazine

2005-02-28 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Sonntag, 27. Februar 2005 23:52 schrieb cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis): > Hi all, Hi Cobaco ;) thanks for the article (and pointing us there). > I'm pleased to announce the publication of an article about > Skolelinux in the latest edition of (the Dutch) OpenMagazine. PDF, > and html versions ar

Re: Please join the Skolelinux sarge testing team

2005-02-21 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Sonntag, 20. Februar 2005 22:04 schrieb Ralf Gesel|ensetter: >   http://developer.skolelinux.no/~klaus/notater/x4250.html ERRATA: I think it should read dd of=sarge-bzz.img bs=1024 seek=600 count=0 rather than dd of=sarge-bzz.img bs=1024 seek=60 count=0 to have 6 GB available

Re: Please join the Skolelinux sarge testing team

2005-02-20 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Sonntag, 20. Februar 2005 22:04 schrieb Ralf Gesel|ensetter: >   (vtun for the virtual tun0 network interface) Alternatively, faj recommends: > "modprobe tun ; chmod 0666 /dev/net/tun" > is the easy way to have tun0 available cheers ralf.

Re: Please join the Skolelinux sarge testing team

2005-02-20 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi there, just want to support Knut's call. Please take a special look on how cfengine interacts with ldap. Am Donnerstag, 17. Februar 2005 15:37 schrieb Knut Yrvin: > Links to relevant download area and a document with a short guide on > how to use rsync, and the workarounds when installing: I

Call for artworks: wallpapers, banners etc.

2005-02-20 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Dear pixel designer and gimp artists, let's start a Skolelinux artworks contest! Personally, I created some wallpaper using GIMP. The result can be seen at http://www.skolelinux.org/de/get_started/download#artwork The raw source for this image can be found at http://www.skolelinux.org/portal/

Re: Proposal: Virtual CD Webmin Module

2005-02-14 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
, 9. Januar 2005 23:06 schrieb Ralf Gesel|ensetter: > Hi there, > > before putting it away into bugzilla's wishlist, I'd like to present > an idea just coming into my mind. Maybe it is already there - or you > consider it bullsh* as it serves mainly windos. But well: > &

Re: i tried skolellinux sarge-bzzware 20041104

2005-02-13 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Dienstag, 18. Januar 2005 20:00 schrieb Martin Herweg: > I was not successful with trying internal e-mail with kmail: > IMAP server says access denied, > smtp to localhost works, > smtp server complains: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unknown user > smtp to tjener does not work. Did you yous encrypted se

Re: Mindmapping Software: VYM

2005-02-11 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Freitag, 11. Februar 2005 01:54 schrieb Alexander Schmehl: > I plan to play arround with it tomorow or on this weekend, unless > someone else stepps in, who wants this package. Hi there, Crissi from lug-wr built a slightly adapted Debian package of vim which I uploaded to http://www.skolelinu

Mindmapping Software: VYM

2005-02-10 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi there, many of you will know the Debian package "freemind" which is java based and hence platform independent. Only recently I discovered a really nice alternative: vym ("view your mind"). As it comes with pictures and runs as binary, it is more attractive to younger kids and runs faster. A

Re: woody or sarge?

2005-02-08 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Dienstag, 8. Februar 2005 14:06 schrieb Frank Weißer: > But, should i stay on the stable release, based on woody or take the > sarge-based one? Hi Frank, at the recent situation I'd plea for Sarge for your terminal server; if you install a main server (Tjener) for itself, you can make it a Wo

Re: Debian-edu meeting in Greece?

2005-02-07 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi Am Montag, 7. Februar 2005 01:50 schrieb Finn-Arne Johansen: > I think this would be a bad weekend for us in Norway (at least us > with family/children), because of the celebration of National Day > (Constitution Day?) May 17th. okay, how about 5.5. - 8.5. ? We have a long weekend then, too ;)

Re: A clearest OS

2005-02-06 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Sonntag, 6. Februar 2005 22:50 schrieb Pierre H: > So for I suggest to reproduce such a function, but > more developped. It mean that the Debian geek could > show exactly what his OS is doing, and have keybord > shortcut to see whith different detail level what does > his OS. Salut Piere ;) th

Re: Debian-edu meeting in Greece?

2005-02-06 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Kalispera ;) Am Sonntag, 6. Februar 2005 21:25 schrieb Konstantinos Margaritis: > Do you > have any dates in preference? May 14 - 18 would be fine for myself, as we have some whitsun holidays (to be exact: monday till wednesday). Yassou Ralf. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Summary of last week's meeting with eZ.

2005-02-06 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Dear Alex, thank you very much for your thorough summary of the talks we had at Ulsrud. Push and pull factors for a possible migration from plone to eZ /ee-zee/ Publish are made clear. Am Samstag, 5. Februar 2005 17:52 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > On 05-02-2005 16:58, Alex Brasetvik wrote: > >

Re: Reimbursement of travel expences regarding developer gatherings

2005-02-06 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi Jørgen, thanks for the forms... Am Mittwoch, 2. Februar 2005 20:40 schrieb Jørgen Grønlund: > Please use a recently updated list of foreign exchange currency > rates when converting the amounts to Norwegian kroner (NOK). Okay, any links for that? How about "IBAN" Account number: In Germany w

Re: Req.: experiences with standalone profile

2005-02-04 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi Finn-Arne, thank you for your thorough report - it has answered (nearly) all my questions. Am Freitag, 4. Februar 2005 09:55 schrieb Finn-Arne Johansen: > Well, you could have done a search on google or gmane for it ? > I tried to search for "skolelinux standalone laptop" on google, and > gue

Req.: experiences with standalone profile

2005-02-03 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi there, on the web pages, standalone profile is said to be devised especially for laptops that are not always connected to tjener. This defines the goals of the profile quite well, but leaves some question to those who didn't find the time to try it out, yet. Obviously standalone encourages

Re: New SkoleLinux Installation

2005-02-03 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi Michael, as for mere thin client servers, I can only encourage you trying out finn arnes sarge version. You will find it easiest beneath the Download section of skolelinux.org. Am Donnerstag, 3. Februar 2005 05:23 schrieb Michael Bishop: > sarge-i386-bzzware.raw this looks well. mind the ti

Re: how to install software on more than one machine ?

2005-01-31 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi Martin, thanks for re-raising that question :) Am Freitag, 28. Januar 2005 12:15 schrieb Martin Herweg: > How can a teacher, later after the first installation of the servers > & workstation, install more applications on those 4 Machines ? > > Is anyone using dsh (distributed shell) for that ?

Thank you!

2005-01-31 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hello Oslo, having arrived back home, I'd like to thank you all for your friendly hospitility, for numerous talks, discussions, lessons, guidings - not to forget the really well prepared lunches and the common dinner at Egon's! If I started naming single persons here, I wouldn't know where to

Re: todo for the weekend

2005-01-27 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Donnerstag, 27. Januar 2005 22:55 schrieb Mari Wang: > It would be good to know what exactly is expected of us here.  Markus > has mentioned that we need to do it well, but a more precise > definition of 'it' would be helpful.  Anyone? It'll depend on the kind of tracks we'll leave, I suppose :

Re: FreeNX

2005-01-27 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
hi Am Donnerstag, 27. Januar 2005 19:23 schrieb Andreas Tille: > As I said a couple of times ago:  My main interest would be to have > *official* Debian packages of *recent* FreeNX versions. well, of course, that would be great - and with sarge the chance increases to get one. But "waiting until

Re: FreeNX

2005-01-27 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
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. First impressions are mix

Re: GnuPG Keysigning party, at this weekends developer gathering.

2005-01-26 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
pub 1024D/E6DE0971 2004-06-10 RalfGesellensetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key fingerprint = B5A1 C509 29AB A893 308A B0D1 E2D7 75D9 E6DE 0971 sub 1024g/F17EECE3 2004-06-10 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Yes, I will participate in the developer gathering 29.01.05

2005-01-26 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Mittwoch, 26. Januar 2005 15:20 schrieb Kristiansen Stein: > Since our intranet > will be a part of the Skolelinux-system in Kongsvinger, we were > wondering if you were > intereseted in making our system a part of you're project. We are > using Java technology (JSP/ > Servlets), and we were thi

Yes, I will participate in the developer gathering, 28-30 January, 2005

2005-01-24 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi * Name: RalfGesellensetter * Travel expenses: 315 Euro * Which part of the gathering you are joining: Documentation & translation (if this is combineable) * If you are joining us for dinner on Friday and/or Saturday Arriving at Oslo Airport at 2200 hrs on Friday, I'll miss that dinner.

Request for Accomodation :) // Re: Registered participants to the january development gathering

2005-01-23 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi there, now it is decided: I will come to Oslo and bring something that should be there - in the cradle of SKolelinux ;) My flight dates: OUTWARD FLIGHT: SK4826, SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES 28 January, 20:15, Dusseldorf Dusseldorf Apt 28 January, 22:00, Oslo Oslo Airport RETURN FLIGHT: SK482

Re: Registered participants to the january development gathering

2005-01-23 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Sonntag, 23. Januar 2005 22:41 schrieb Mari Wang: > If you believe you have registered for the january development > gathering, please make sure you are on the list linked from this > enmail, and that your information is recorded correctly. Hi there, I am not on the list, as I am still undecid

Re: Fwd: Sarge - Installation ... / apt-get upgrade?

2005-01-23 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Mittwoch, 5. Januar 2005 13:35 schrieb Georg Damm: > I used the image ftp://ftp.skolelinux.no/cd-sarge/sarge-i386-1.raw > an booted with linux26 and the hardwaredetection was fine (in > contrast to the 2.4 kernel). Hi there, some other discussions plus winter holidays seemingly let this threa

Re: Using squidguard blacklists in skolelinux(.de)

2005-01-21 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Freitag, 21. Januar 2005 15:15 schrieb Herman Robak: >  Linking has generally been considered legal I think, you have to put on a disclaimer, at least.

Re: Using squidguard blacklists in skolelinux(.de)

2005-01-21 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi Dirk (personal CC not necessary) Am Donnerstag, 20. Januar 2005 11:44 schrieb Dirk Gómez: ... > > We should consider delivering the hash codes only - to evade > > potential juristical consequences (INAL) > > Could you explain please? Both legal issues and technical > consequences? Providing

a CMS for SLX = Re: eZ in Debian-Edu and on skolelinux.org?

2005-01-20 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi there, let's focus on this question of yours: Am Montag, 17. Januar 2005 13:29 schrieb Alex Brasetvik: > Is it necessary to use the same CMS we bundle in Debian-Edu, e.g. eZ, > on skolelinux.org? If not, is a Wiki[3] a good idea? Combinations? My first approach was: Certainly not. Then I look

Re: eZ in Debian-Edu and on skolelinux.org?

2005-01-20 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi Am Montag, 17. Januar 2005 17:34 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > > Rather no wiki. We are dropping our German wiki now and moving to > > mambo. > > Please elaborate. As sandbox where to collect logs, preliminary information and so on, a Wiki is indeed great. But for presenting a project? Our wik

Solved: gimp2 locale: German only with NX?

2005-01-19 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Montag, 17. Januar 2005 23:31 schrieb Maximilian Wilhelm: > Maybe you want to have a look at the output of "locale" and > echo $LANG Hi, after focussing too much on packages and libs, in the end, $LANG turned out to be the real issue. $ [EMAIL PROTECTED] gimp works. The same is defined in /e

Re: UTF-8 in Debian-Edu

2005-01-19 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Mittwoch, 19. Januar 2005 12:50 schrieb Harald Thingelstad: > I've been working in Eritrea lately, we're implementing Skolelinux > there. Sounds interesting. Will there be a report on that? I mean not of yourself, but in some magazine? Regards Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Using squidguard blacklists in skolelinux(.de)

2005-01-17 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi Dirk, Am Sonntag, 16. Januar 2005 23:51 schrieb Dirk Gómez: > Using squidguard blacklists in skolelinux > > Hello there, I am looking into putting squidguard blacklists into use > for for the German version of skolelinux. > thank you for dedicating some time into this feature which is mainly

Re: gimp2 locale: German only with NX?

2005-01-17 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Montag, 17. Januar 2005 16:58 schrieb Ralf Gesel|ensetter: > Hi there, > > I am using a skolelinux LTSP venus 1.0 with backports from Linex > (KDE3.1) and other places. Gimp2 is version 2.0.6-0kv0 from > deb http://www.tu-harburg.de ./ Packages > > Now, whenever I t

Re: eZ in Debian-Edu and on skolelinux.org?

2005-01-17 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi Alex, Am Montag, 17. Januar 2005 13:29 schrieb Alex Brasetvik: > Markus Gamenius has been in contact with the guys behind eZ [1]. They > are apparently eager to get eZ into Debian-Edu and to help us convert > from Plone [2] on www.skolelinux.org. This is a good premise! > > There are currently

gimp2 locale: German only with NX?

2005-01-17 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi there, I am using a skolelinux LTSP venus 1.0 with backports from Linex (KDE3.1) and other places. Gimp2 is version 2.0.6-0kv0 from deb http://www.tu-harburg.de ./ Packages Now, whenever I try to start gimp as a normal user from thin clients (LTSP) I get an error on console: Locale not su

Re: german skolelinux.de team

2005-01-12 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Montag, 10. Januar 2005 19:54 schrieb Kurt: > Several expert agreed to join us for these weekends and share their > knowledge. The topics are of special interest for teachers. Please > add yourself to our Wiki, if you would like to participate: > > http://www.skolelinux.de/wiki/ArbeitTreffen Co

Remote Access: Service vs. Security

2005-01-11 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
(Xpost) Hi there, as most of you will agree, it makes sense to have particular services of your skolelinux system available remotely: - ssh for administration - ssh for sftp - ssh for NX Even though, we don't use a fix IP, today we had a visitor via ssh who cracked a users password by brutefo

Q: 3D on Thin Clients (GLX/OpenGL)?

2005-01-11 Thread 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 can't use any of those: kpovmodeller - and also blender, now complain: no GLX innovation3d

Re: Q: zope/zwiki: ldap-auth?

2005-01-10 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Montag, 10. Januar 2005 17:40 schrieb Christian Ledermann: > > LDAPUserFolder : > > http://plone.org/documentation/howto/ldap-authentication-with-plone > > download: > http://www.dataflake.org/software/ldapuserfolder/ Danke erstmal. Unter Woody habe ich: ii zope 2.5.1-1woody1 ii zo

Q: zope/zwiki: ldap-auth?

2005-01-10 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
hi there, I just managed easily to install some zope-packages (incl. zwiki) on tjener. I already created a zope manager and an administrator. Now it strikes me, that whoever wants to commit changes to the zwiki needs to login. Can I somehow make zwiki to - import users from tjener's ldap, or -

Proposal: Virtual CD Webmin Module

2005-01-09 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi there, before putting it away into bugzilla's wishlist, I'd like to present an idea just coming into my mind. Maybe it is already there - or you consider it bullsh* as it serves mainly windos. But well: With linux, it is virtually _very_ easy to mount an iso image as virtual drive, using th

Re: dual boot installering av slx

2005-01-08 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi there, based on your posting I updated https://www.skolelinux.org/de/documentation/howtos/dualboot/ It was sometimes a bit tricky to find the diff's (yes I should have used diff :) - so maybe you could check if these addings are all: Am Freitag, 7. Januar 2005 21:02 schrieb Keld Jørn Simons

Re: dual boot installering av slx

2005-01-07 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Freitag, 7. Januar 2005 21:02 schrieb Keld Jørn Simonsen: > I also took the liverty to correct a few spelling mistakes. > Maybe the new text should be put up somewhere. hi, thanks, this is great ;) did anybody - BTW - succeed in transforming a KNOPPIX installation into a slx workstation? re

Presentation: Kid's Software for Linux (URL)

2005-01-02 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all! Bill Kendrick did this presentation one year ago. For those who don't know it yet, I re-spotted its URL: http://www.lugod.org/presentations/kidslinux/ "Kid's Software for Linux Bill Kendrick, New Breed Software For the Linux Users' Group of Davis December 2, 2003

Winter motif for Skolelinux...

2004-12-28 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
hi there, I started designing a winter motif for skolelinux - it is a multilayer gimp document that still needs some workover to become the template for - a wallpaper - a new year greeting card. the landscape is set near oslo. a preview can be seen at http://www.skolelinux.de/~ralf/slx2005.png

Re: Map of skolelinux developers

2004-12-24 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Sonntag, 19. Dezember 2004 23:01 schrieb Herman Robak: >  The map has a bit low resolution.  Could xplanet use > these > instead? Hi, is this map even denser than the one used for skolelinux.org/portal/user_experience/test_schools/test_s

Re: Map of skolelinux developers

2004-12-24 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Freitag, 24. Dezember 2004 09:45 schrieb Klaus Ade Johnstad: > And if we don't know the coordinate, any place we can look it up > maybe? http://www.world-gazetteer.com/home.htm You will find your place if you look on its administrative division at http://www.world-gazetteer.com/fr/fr_no.htm Re

Re: Fwd: Sarge - Installation stops at sd_mod

2004-12-22 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi faj :) Am Mittwoch, 22. Dezember 2004 19:36 schrieb Finn-Arne Johansen: > It may be possible to build an image with 2.6 kernel, but then you > cant use autopartkit, and you have to partition the drive yourself. I > hav vagely looked at providing a schema for partman, but that's just ah, there

Re: NFS disconnects periodically [nearly solved]

2004-12-22 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Dienstag, 21. Dezember 2004 14:27 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > Then upgrade it! Hi, I did manually (dpkg -i nscd...deb) and it looks well so far. Regards Ralf

Fwd: Sarge - Installation stops at sd_mod

2004-12-22 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi, this request was posted to our German list - maybe here is a better chance to get it answered. Coarse contents: Georg tried to install bzz image (sarge) but due to poor raid/sata experience, he dowsn't get any further than this: Installation stops while inserting module "sd_mod". As Knoppix

FAQ-Collection for users

2004-12-21 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi there, there are some FAQ entries, but there could be more to assist mere users at daily work. I'll start off with two - to be answered later. 1. How come my OpenOffice Menu is English? -> correct locale setting 2. How come opening a previously stored sxc file, it opens as folder containin

Re: Cryptit / Re: Map of skolelinux developers

2004-12-21 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Dienstag, 21. Dezember 2004 15:50 schrieb Herman Robak: > http://developer.skolelinux.no/scripts/cryptit okay, thanks, that is it! I linked it on the German page http://www.skolelinux.org/de/contribute/development/cvs_intro now, as well.. regards ralf

Cryptit / Re: Map of skolelinux developers

2004-12-21 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Sonntag, 19. Dezember 2004 17:00 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: > I was asked who should be in this list, and how I define Skolelinux > developer.  I define it very broadly, covering everyone invited to > the Skolelinux developer gatherings (everyone having done, currently > doing, or planning to

allow xlock to access thin clients /= Re: Q: How to "freeze" LTSP sessions - and unfreeze later.

2004-12-21 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Mittwoch, 24. November 2004 01:11 schrieb Finn-Arne Johansen: > well, you could do it for all the users, something like: >     who | while read WHO WHERE WHEN ; do >       case $WHERE in >         :[0-9]*) >           su -c "DISPLAY=$WHERE xscreensaver-command -lock" $WHO >           ;; >      

Re: NFS disconnects periodically [nearly solved]

2004-12-21 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Dienstag, 21. Dezember 2004 14:27 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > Then upgrade it! > > I am pretty sure that will help! well, even with sarge, I didn't find any newer version - lemme see @home: well, here I got a newer version, wrong sources then... thanks for the hint, the analogy of the versio

Re: NFS disconnects periodically [nearly solved]

2004-12-21 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Montag, 20. Dezember 2004 23:10 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > ...and nscd is 2.3.2.ds1-19 as well, or an older version? nscd is the original skolelinux version. apt-cache policy nscd nscd: Installed: 2.2.5-11.5 Candidate: 2.2.5-11.5 Version Table: *** 2.2.5-11.5 0 500 http://secur

Re: NFS disconnects periodically [nearly solved]

2004-12-20 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Mittwoch, 8. Dezember 2004 13:07 schrieb Ralf Gesel|ensetter: > I got the feeling that our tjener is to blame for peridical hangs I > observed at thin clients, and work stations. LTSPserver reports > someting like: NFS not reachable (time-out) / NFS connected ok. Hi there, I am very

Re: NFS disconnects periodically

2004-12-17 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Mittwoch, 15. Dezember 2004 23:50 schrieb Finn-Arne Johansen: > and create /skole/tjener/home0. Mh, I think, I will try, can I start with using "10.0.2.10" instead of @ltspserver-... in exports _without_ disabling autofs? It seems there are more auto mounts: automount(pid628) on /skole type

Re: Disable double loggin with ldap?

2004-12-17 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Donnerstag, 16. Dezember 2004 11:06 schrieb Torstein Dybdahl: > Hi, > at my school we now have several ltspservers. ... hi there, I understand what you mean and have this idea: use kdm's logon /logoff script to - create / delete a lockfile in ~/.kde: touch ~/.kde/.unique-session-lock rm -

Re: NFS disconnects periodically

2004-12-15 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Mittwoch, 15. Dezember 2004 22:21 schrieb Ralf Gesel|ensetter: > #       debug-level             0 Not having found any description of the debug-level, I set it to 10, now, and all i get is these lines (some of them mean "nscd is already running", as I manually had to start

Re: NFS disconnects periodically

2004-12-15 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi Finn-Arne, Am Mittwoch, 15. Dezember 2004 21:21 schrieb Finn-Arne Johansen: > ... [Snippet from my own posting] >> This issue seems to be connected to "Delay in LDAP lookups." >> http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200307/msg00398.html > > Just curious - would it help to not use a

Re: NFS disconnects periodically

2004-12-15 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Mittwoch, 15. Dezember 2004 15:14 schrieb C. Gatzemeier: > > I referred to the default of inetd. > > If those and other default settings are too low for quite common > school situtiations skolelinux should maybe change them to more > appropriate values. Hi there, we found something: Our LTSP c

tjener# ps aux | grep slapd | wc -l ?

2004-12-13 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
hi there, Could you please compare your values? I wonder what amount of slapd threads are usual for slapd? Can I configure this? Is it advisable at all? On our machines "ps faux" shows these 36 slapd entries: > # ps faux |grep slapd |unexpand -a |cut -f2-3,6- |expand >502 0.0 2.2 91272

Re: Problemes with v 1.0r1

2004-12-13 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Montag, 13. Dezember 2004 11:39 schrieb Finn-Arne Johansen: > For those of you wanting to try out Sarge, I know there is some bugs > there as well: Hi Finn-Arne, thanks for your summary - can you say something on the state of manual partitioning (install as 2ndary boot system) in your sarge v

Re: NFS tuning?

2004-12-11 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Samstag, 11. Dezember 2004 17:03 schrieb Ralf Gesel|ensetter: > as I suspected NFS to be a brake in performance, I looked around for > information on how to tune NFS. Here, I got a collection of interesting URLs: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&postid=96

NFS tuning?

2004-12-11 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi there, as I suspected NFS to be a brake in performance, I looked around for information on how to tune NFS. In nfsstat, I realized that 75% of all requests concerned file attributes. I also experienced system wide delays simultaneous with requests for direcory contents. Although I can't ver

Re: Error testing net for thinclients

2004-12-11 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Freitag, 10. Dezember 2004 14:20 schrieb Axel Bojer: > It tries, and always did, to start from the network card ("Dhcp > ..."), but always fails to do soemthing more, and starts Grub instead > if I don`t stop it. So there _is_ a message on client side like "looking up for boot on lan" or simi

Re: NFS disconnects periodically

2004-12-10 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Freitag, 10. Dezember 2004 14:01 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: > Make sure both are set to autonegotiate, or lock both of them to the > setting you want. Hi there, thanks for your fast reply. If it is really this autoneg problem - then it should be as easy as this: 1.) activate optical lightw

Re: NFS disconnects periodically

2004-12-10 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Mittwoch, 8. Dezember 2004 13:07 schrieb Ralf Gesel|ensetter: > I got the feeling that our tjener is to blame for peridical hangs I > observed at thin clients, and work stations. LTSPserver reports > someting like: NFS not reachable (time-out) / NFS connected ok. Hi there, this is

Re: Q: Undelete users in ldap? (Attic)

2004-12-09 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Donnerstag, 9. Dezember 2004 23:29 schrieb Ralf Gesel|ensetter: > Any hints are very welcome. seems like solved: instead restoring I decided for recreation.

Q: Undelete users in ldap? (Attic)

2004-12-09 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi there, I can confirm: The WLUS function "Delete all users in Class" works! This is also true for secondary memberships. Now I am happy there is an attic - and all homes are still there. Is there a simple script - or even frontend - to undelete users? Any hints are very welcome. Thanks Ralf

Re: NFS disconnects periodically

2004-12-09 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Mittwoch, 8. Dezember 2004 19:55 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: > [Randy Edwards] > > > The client will freeze/lockup (no keyboard response or mouse > > movement, nothing) for 5-10 seconds, then come back to life for a > > second or two, then freeze again for 10 seconds or so, and then > > will ac

[Solved] Struggling OpenOffice Part 2

2004-12-09 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Dienstag, 12. Oktober 2004 17:34 schrieb Ralf Gesel|ensetter: > Now I got two more problems on the ltsp server: > 1. The print dialogue doesn't display my self defined printers 1&2, > but only the generic printer. Okay, there is a solution with Openoffice 1.1 that might a

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