Re: Digital signage app for Linux (Info screen)

2013-07-14 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Mittwoch, 25. November 2009 schrieb Ole-Anders Andreassen: > Does anyone know about a digital signage app that runs on Linux. I have > looked at Xibo (http://xibo.org.uk/), but then I would have to run Windows. Any news here? Maybe firefox OS? Or some Debian from stick? As for hardware: The c

Re: hardware advice

2013-06-27 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Hi Nigel, nice to read you ;) Am Donnerstag, 27. Juni 2013 schrieb Nigel Barker: > 1. switches are currently 100Mbps. Should I upgrade them? It is always reccommendable to give your server 1-2 Gigabit uplink to your switch (if your harware allows this, but even used switches would include at leas

Re: Suggestions for programs for learning to program

2013-04-28 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Sonntag, 28. April 2013 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: > Hi. I just came back from an interesting talk about how to teach kids > and students to program, and four tools were highlighted in the talk. Dear Petter, thanks for this list, I didn't know all of them! As for logo, we come with kturtl

Alternative: LibreOffice >=3.6

2013-04-19 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Hi there, please allow me to keep you up to date with my findings: I just managed to install LibreOffice 4.0.2 from their deb packages, containing cdrlib, and impressingly, all items of some Corel Draw file (2 pages Geography exam including text & graphics) are imported without any flaw into Libr

WNP: python-uniconvertor enables inkscape to import CDR files

2013-04-19 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear list, one things teachers need occasionally is importing works sheets from collegues. As it comes to proprietary file formats, corel draw seems to be most tricky. Accordingly, it's nice to read about the Sk1 project, providing free software that is able to free documents that was secretly

Fwd: DNS-Problem

2013-03-01 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear List. Mr. Ritter has a setting where dhcp & dns is done by a third party server if I understand him correct (see below, German). Nevertheless there is a tjener, and there is a gateway 10.0.2.1, but his problem is that subdomains are not resolved (like sub.domain.no). Plain domains (like domai

Question regarding ... // Fwd: Frage zu KMail und DisklessWorkstations

2013-01-28 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear list, please, find below an original posting from a primary school at Halle (Saale). They run a small skolelinux network offline. Everything works fine when using the LTSP profile (including mail clients), but as it comes to diskless workstations, imap doesn't work anymore from client side (

Re: Please help golearn (from the goplay package) become more useful for Debian Edu

2013-01-09 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Dienstag, 8. Januar 2013 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: > You need to wait a bit for the index to update. Not quite sure how > long it take. Thank you, works now, is this a feature or is it a bug? I think xapian could improve its guessing... Parley seems to be missing as vocab trainer on 1st s

Fwd: Installation

2012-11-27 Thread RalfGesellensetter
--- Begin Message --- Hallo werte erfahrene Skolelinuxer, wir haben an unserer Schule - erst parallel zu einem auswärtig gewarteten Windows Netz - ein Skolelinux Netz aufgebaut. In den Biologie und Chemie Vorbereitungsräumen mit ein paar alten für Windows nicht mehr ausreichenden Arbeitsplatz

Fwd: Re: diskless vs. thin / LTSP Performance

2012-10-15 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Hi all, Wolfgang tries to understand "undocumented" phaenomens on skolelinux servers. Maybe this is valuable hints for missing chapters - or anybody can comment on this? Cheers Ralf -- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -- Subject: Re: diskless vs. thin / LTSP Performance Date: Sonnt

Fwd: Erfahrungen mit squeeze und wine

2012-10-15 Thread RalfGesellensetter
hello all, Andreas asks about experiences with wine on thin clients under squeeze. His school "needs" edu software attached to regular school books. I assume that sound is used, as well. Any hints? Regards Ralf -- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -- Subject: Erfahrungen mit squeeze u

Fwd: Killer

2012-10-15 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Hi folks. This user reports a problem with killer script when using xfce. Any experience here? Regards Ralf --- Begin Message --- Liebe Liste, auf den Worstations mit installiertem XFCE4 wird man stündlich vom Killerscript rausgeworfen. Ich habe das jetzt mal durch chmod -x /usr/sbin/killer.

Re: PAC/WPAD with Iceweasel is horribly slow

2012-06-26 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Dienstag, 26. Juni 2012 schrieb Mike Gabriel: > This feels as if you should check with your DNS provider for latency > on DNS queries... Hi, maybe I have to blame myself. When I compared _my_ code to Pere's, I found a missing ";" - so it parsing/syntax errors were most likely another source o

Re: PAC/WPAD with Iceweasel is horribly slow

2012-06-25 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear Petter, dear list, this bug was reported to firefox BTS years ago, and is still there. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235853#c260 With Firefox 11 or later (Windows WS), colleagues experience regular timeouts. Well, I will try to use your alternative syntax, and then, we have to

Remove package "killer" from workstation profile?

2012-06-24 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear list, Roland reported closing applications on work stations, caused by killer. What do you think, is killer daemon designed to run on workstations, anyway? Regards Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: 45 thin clients = slow squeeze

2012-06-04 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Montag, 4. Juni 2012 schrieb Ole-Anders Andreassen: > 45 clients booted as thin clients. Booting takes several minutes. > All users opening firefox, openoffice and a pdf file (okular). yet another question: what desktop environment was used? Most likely KDE. How many instances of nepomuk, arcon

Re: 45 thin clients = slow squeeze

2012-06-04 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear Ole-Anders, thanks for your quite detailed heavy-load-test: Am Montag, 4. Juni 2012 schrieb Ole-Anders Andreassen: > 45 clients booted as thin clients. Booting takes several minutes. > All users opening firefox, openoffice and a pdf file (okular). This sounds like a nearly standardized test

Fwd: Weitere Pakete installieren?

2012-05-09 Thread RalfGesellensetter
briefly: where can I place third party deb packages (like geogebra, bluej) to be installed over pxe? --- Begin Message --- Hallo, die Arbeitsstationen werden über pxe/Netzwerk installiert. Zusätzlich würde ich gerne Greenfoot und Smartboard mitinstallieren lassen. Wo speichere ich auf dem tjener

Thin Client sessions freeze with certain applications

2012-05-09 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear list, a German school is trying to upgrade to squeaze. Years ago, it was Philipp who helped them out to have their thin clients work. There is a very detailed logging page in our Wiki, in short, thin clients will freeze if users start openoffice. This is not the case for direct sessions from

ldap: export account data (csv) from command line.

2012-04-16 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Hi yis, these days I had to extract account data (login, full name) from an elderly tjener's ldap. Quickly, I archieved to grep and paste outputs of "ldapsearch -x" in order to accomplish such a list. Only later, I had to learn that some users were missing in my hand made list. Apparently there

Re: libreoffice 3.5.2

2012-04-16 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Hey Alf, how are you? Am Montag, 16. April 2012 schrieb Alf Tonny Bätz: > Or have i missunderstood something here? well, once there is support for shrinter devices, the tray issue should be obsolete: http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/shrinter.shtml scnr, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Help needed, binding moodle to LDAP

2012-02-18 Thread RalfGesellensetter
#x27;Resource id #63', Bind result: '' Cheers Ralf Am Montag, 13. Februar 2012 schrieb RalfGesellensetter: > Hi there, > > I tried to bind an external hosted moodle > to our school's ldap (tjener). I followed > all instructions, and tested remote access > us

Re: Help needed, binding moodle to LDAP

2012-02-13 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Hej Pere, thanks for this quick reply...! Am Montag, 13. Februar 2012 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: > [Ralf Gesellensetter] > > Any clue? Is browsing less than authing? Can I easily test if > > external auth would work? > > Authentication require SSL with fairly strong encryption. Is this > enab

Help needed, binding moodle to LDAP

2012-02-13 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Hi there, I tried to bind an external hosted moodle to our school's ldap (tjener). I followed all instructions, and tested remote access using luma (being able to browse the ldap tree anonymously). However, the extern moodle fails when trying to auth towards our tjener. Alas, no additional messag

Re: Kturtle in Bengali...

2011-11-11 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear Joysankar, thank you for your work, having kturtle in Bengali, is really a great achievement. I am a teacher having translated kturtle commands into German years ago, so I wonder if your translation also includes commands (there used to be some issues with UTF8, hope, this is fixed now). I a

Re: Back from Fronter (LMS from NO)?

2011-10-16 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear Petter, thanks for your reply. I hope everything is alright at home... Am Sonntag, 16. Oktober 2011 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: > On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:01:56 +0200, RalfGesellensetter wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > non-free LMS "fronter" is (or rather: was

Back from Fronter (LMS from NO)?

2011-10-16 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear list, non-free LMS "fronter" is (or rather: was) developped in Norway, if I got it right, now discontinued. Our municipality was "clever enough" to buy a super-license that includes free usage for our school. They are supposed to install MBRS for room booking along with fronter. I wonder if

Discontinued: Quanta+ HTML editor

2011-10-16 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear list, does anybody know if there is a chance to port Quanta to KDE4? Recently, I received a (pityful) message, that this handy HTML IDE is missing on more recent KDE4 desktops. According to the German Wikipedia discussion page says: Since KDE 4.3 Quanta is dysfunctional, as kfilereplace,

Re: Any experience with MRBS

2011-10-10 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > More recently I have succeeded using calendarserver for booking > purposes, and I wholeheartedly recommend doing that instead: It uses > open data and protocols, can be a little tricky to setup at first, but > benefit is high as it is then

Any experience with MRBS

2011-10-06 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear fellas, I wonder if anybody here has got experience with the Meeting Room Booking System (MRBS running with LAMP)? We plan to use this online tool to allow teachers booking our resources (like special rooms or mobile beamers). It should be easy to bind MRBS [1} to tjener's LDAP, whereas jus

Re: Samba: Domain "Skolelinux" not available if IP beyond 10.0.2.239

2011-10-06 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear list, Am Sonntag, 2. Oktober 2011 schrieb RalfGesellensetter: ... > > minor update: Ther error is not reproducable, any more, > but was most likely a DOS issue. > I have to apologize for this false alarm. Rather than DOS, unseemingly disconnected LAN plugs are the most likely

Re: Samba: Domain "Skolelinux" not available if IP beyond 10.0.2.239

2011-10-02 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Donnerstag, 8. September 2011 schrieb RalfGesellensetter: > It stroke me that all clients concerned were in an IP range > of 10.0.2.240 upwards (static190). > Dear list, minor update: Ther error is not reproducable, any more, but was most likely a DOS issue. Maybe you have a quick

apturl / aptlinex: aptitude for dummies?

2011-10-02 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear list, a teacher colleague pointed me to apturl. It allows installing packages by clicking - wheras root access is still needed (as opposed to klik). http://wiki.debian.org/AptProtocol lists this approach and also aptlinex. But this entry stems from March 2009. So any news about this, I wond

Re: squid and flash

2011-09-21 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Montag, 19. September 2011 schrieb Nigel Barker: > Thanks for this suggestion Alf, and to you too Ralf. > I am already using nonfree flash. > I have discovered that everything works in my house, where the "only" > difference from school is the firewall. I have not customised squid on > either tj

Re: squid and flash

2011-09-18 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear Nigel, nice to read you! Am Mittwoch, 14. September 2011 schrieb Nigel Barker: > Dear All, > > Is it possible that squid (lenny tjener) drops some flash content? > I thought it might be our firewall, so I disabled it for testing and > nothing changed. Not that I knew of, but as I think of

Re: Samba: Domain "Skolelinux" not available if IP beyond 10.0.2.239

2011-09-08 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Donnerstag, 8. September 2011 schrieb Mike Gabriel: > Otherwise it's just guessing... Additional info: The server was rebooted during holidays. Hence, an edit in bind settings that was done by the support company or any other changes done in the further past might have come apparant only now!

Re: Samba: Domain "Skolelinux" not available if IP beyond 10.0.2.239

2011-09-08 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear Mike, thanks for your quick reply. Of course I can answer your questions - let's have a look: Am Donnerstag, 8. September 2011 schrieb Mike Gabriel: ... > > Could you post some details? > >- Samba version, Skolelinux version #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux edu 2.0 r0 _Sarge_ ... samba 3.0

Samba: Domain "Skolelinux" not available if IP beyond 10.0.2.239

2011-09-08 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear list, our Debian Edu system used to be stable like a rock. After holidays, I encountered an issue as follows: The last 8 of 20 clients in our cabinet cannot log in to samba, their message is "domain not available". I checked cables and switches - and IPs (from 2nd boot partition running Deb

Iceweasel: Linux Persona (Tux skin)

2011-07-03 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear list, as for customizing or even branding our desktop to give it a Debian[Edu] feeling, personas are yet another option. I just noticed there are some local Linux personas from South America - like Brasil: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tux-brasil-linux/ Anybody reading who

Please vote for Bug that makes Firefox/Iceweasel hang with auto-proxy configuration (wpad)

2011-06-20 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear Debian edu users and developers. It's been 2.5 years ago, when I joined an even older bug report for Firefox 2.0. These days I had to find out that it isn't fixed in 4.0 nor 5.0. For oranisations like us schools, this is a real show stopper, as users will have to wait for seconds until a n

Re: cd/dvd status

2011-06-14 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Dienstag, 14. Juni 2011 schrieb Andreas B. Mundt: > I did not look into samba. > > So please test and help fixing the remaining issues, > best regards, > Dear Andi, thanks for your report. Could you, please, be kind enough to call users for testing on the German user list, as well, and

Re: SkoleTux artwork

2011-06-10 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Donnerstag, 9. Juni 2011 schrieb christoph muetze: > you can download the new logo in vector format here: > http://www.pixelz.de/stuff/debianedu_logo_2011.svg Hello Cbristian, once more, your name suggests that you might be able to read German ;) At http://wiki.skolelinux.de/ArtWork you will

Re: SkoleTux artwork

2011-06-10 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Donnerstag, 9. Juni 2011 schrieb christoph muetze: > On 09/06/11 22:11, Mike Gabriel wrote: Thank you, very much. Just a question: Did you use the original Font for Debian [1] or did you just "copy and paste" the e, d, and turn the n by 180° ? I just wonder if the space between a + n is wider,

Re: Donating source code to the Debian project.

2011-05-23 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear Edward, thank you for your offer! It might be interesting, as well, to learn a bit about yourself: Where do you live, and what do you do? As delphi is mostly used in schools, nowadays, I suspect you are a prospect pupil who wants to contribute to the world of free software. Share your code:

Re: fresh install problems

2011-05-19 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Dienstag, 10. Mai 2011 schrieb Volker Cordes: > Hello, > > I just installed debian edu based on squeeze and need some help with > configuring the things I need. It would be great if you could point me > to some documentation or answer my questions directly. Dear Volker, welcome to Skolelinu

Re: diskless workstations / setup

2011-03-30 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Hi Nigel, nice to hear from you in Japan, so I guess you are alright... Am Mittwoch, 30. März 2011 schrieben Sie: > If you connect a normal full workstation to eth1 of an ltspserver, it > will get a 192 ip address, and you can still log in as ldap user, > without it being a member of the workstat

Re: diskless workstations / setup

2011-03-29 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear Oded, thanks for your mediating approach ;) Am Mittwoch, 30. März 2011 schrieb Oded Naveh: > I don't understand why would there be an dhcpd on an LTSP? There used to be dhcpd on eth1 (192.168.0.254) to serve thin clients on a separate network. > I believe there should only be one - system

Re: Make LibreOffice part of Debian Edu

2011-02-15 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Dienstag, 15. Februar 2011 schrieben Sie: > When I was printing the semester reports last week (from Windows - > photocopy machine driver problem), I had to wait for frustratingly > long for the new printing dialogue to respond. So long that I > uninstalled libre office and went back to OOo. It

Make LibreOffice part of Debian Edu

2011-02-15 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear List, congratulations to all of you who contributed to the release of Squeeze! It's been some weeks that I have been following the fork of LibreOffice, but only recently I gave it a try. And, wow! - it's been a long time ago that a new version took my breath away like LibreOffice 3.3! Ther

Re: Testing changes to Debian Edu SVN

2011-01-09 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Sonntag, 9. Januar 2011 schrieb Andreas B. Mundt: > What I do is rsyncing the DVD image. This happens usually in an > acceptable time frame. cf. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Download and http://wiki.skolelinux.de/Lenny/DownLoad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-requ...@lists.debia

Developer Meeting in Zweibrücken // Re: LINBO & italc-rlp integration (Re: Gosa vs. CipUX)

2011-01-09 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Hi Klaus, hello everybody, happy new year to you all! Am Freitag, 7. Januar 2011 schrieb Klaus Knopper: > Me, too. It would be great if some people who have the power to make it > happen, could attend our developer meeting in February in > Zweibrücken/Germany. More about this later. I take this

Re: Which video editor should we install by default?

2010-12-15 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Dienstag, 14. Dezember 2010 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: > Which video editor should we install by default in Debian Edu? Dear Petter, how are you. Thanks for giving this stub, I never heard of OpenShot before, but my first impression is very very good! BTW, is stopmotions still in focus? K

Re: S: Independent free short URL service (for wiki pages)?

2010-12-08 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Hi Holger, Am Mittwoch, 8. Dezember 2010 schrieb Holger Levsen: > Hi Ralf, > > On Mittwoch, 8. Dezember 2010, RalfGesellensetter wrote: > > Is there any awareness of this, or even an independent service for this? > > http://deb.li/ > Thank you very much, very prom

S: Independent free short URL service (for wiki pages)?

2010-12-08 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear list, twitter & co. make those more or less doubtful short url services popular, ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening As wiki URLs are as long as meaningful, there might be a need of short references, e.g. when writing down a URL on paper. Is there any awareness of this, or ev

Re: apt-get upgrade 32-bit workstation to 64-bit?

2010-11-06 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Sorry for the noise, I found http://teddyb.org/~rlpowell/hobbies/debian_arch_up/ and this page tells us very explicitly what a bad idea this was. Regards Ralf Am Samstag, 6. November 2010 schrieben Sie: > Dear list, > > on a brand new 64-bit machine, I started with a Debian Edu Lenny workstati

apt-get upgrade 32-bit workstation to 64-bit?

2010-11-06 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear list, on a brand new 64-bit machine, I started with a Debian Edu Lenny workstation image (no LVM of course), that contains some manual tweaks like java installations. Hence, and because the install deadline is straight ahead, I dare not start from scratch with a 64-bit installation. But I c

moodle.skolelinux.org community -- or making money with free software

2010-10-07 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear list, this is just a slight idea that came into my mind during recent negotiations with local municipalities. I heard of schools that would pay several hundred euros per year in order to get access to a web hosted LMS like moodle. Their biggest objection was, that LMS accounts would fall apa

Re: school in the map

2010-10-06 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear Claudio, thanks for your patience, just updated the (static) openlayers file. Regards Ralf. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201010062307.52226

Re: (forw) school in the map

2010-10-06 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Mittwoch, 6. Oktober 2010 schrieben Sie: > Some teachers of Fabriano (Ancona) Italy, have written to me saying > that they have entered their school in the database of schools using > Skolelinux, but do not see their school in the map. Ciao Claudio, When did they register? Does their school d

Fwd: [Swami-devel] Fast track to Swami 2.0

2010-10-05 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear list, I dare forward this announcement, because Rosegarden and other musical applications are part of our educational agenda, I think. SWAMI is an editor for soundfonts (formerly smurf). Kind regards Ralf -- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -- Subject: [Swami-devel] Fast track

Wiki system with LDAP auth for Debian Edu/Lenny?

2010-09-22 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear list, in order to introduce and use a local Wiki system in school, I am looking for a lean and easy configurable software with LDAP connection. In former times, I managed to bind moodle to our LDAP, but this time, a simple wiki system is enough. apt-cache search wiki ldap points me to medi

Geography apps on Lenny: Viking, Merkaartor, QLandkarte

2010-09-22 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear list, analysing GPX files on thin clients can get very slow with java based Josm. For introducing GPX files, native apps like meraartor, viking or qlandkarte are provided with Debian Lenny. This is a quick feedback for whom it concerns... 1.Viking takes the proxy settings from http_proxy (d

Re: kstartupconfig won't let me in

2010-09-13 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Montag, 13. September 2010 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: > Not sure, but I would guess on a full disk partition. Same 1st guessing, but not necessarily home0, local /tmp or even /var/tmp are candidates here as well. But I also recall similar messages that were due to "Stale NFS file handle" -

Re: cfengine ore any admintool runs in skole after install?

2010-09-02 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Montag, 5. April 2010 schrieb Andreas Schockenhoff: > Does anything automatically runs in skole after install that influence > the admin work? > According to our manual - http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Lenny/Architecture#Administration "We use cfengine to edit configuration f

Re: Forcing new users to change their password on first login?

2010-09-02 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Sonntag, 2. Mai 2010 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: > One interesting feature in Active Directory, is the ability to create > a new user with an expired password, and thus force the user to change > the password on the first login attempt. Hi Petter, I read this only today. Interesting approach,

Re: Debian package/software "gobby": Colaborative text editing

2010-09-01 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Dienstag, 31. August 2010 schrieb RalfGesellensetter: > Any experience here? > I will try it at school ASAP - don't know if there are packages for Lenny. Yes, Philipp found out first, and I gave Gobby a try today: Great tool for teaching - like a real time wiki, everybody can ed

Debian package/software "gobby": Colaborative text editing

2010-08-31 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Hi there, a most recent issue of Linux User Magazine introduced "gobby", I wonder if this software is worth to get part of Skolelinux default installation. Any experience here? I will try it at school ASAP - don't know if there are packages for Lenny. Try http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/ Cheers Ral

Re: extend ip-range (more than 90)

2010-08-28 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Samstag, 28. August 2010 schrieb Martin Schulte: > in the manual in chapter 17.1.2 is described, how to extend the ip-range > up to 90 static ip-addresses. > I need 97 static ip-addresses, is this possible? > Thanks, Martin Yes of course, there is space for 512 addresses in 10.0.2.0/23. Regar

Re: A new major update of The Linux Signpost

2010-08-25 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Mittwoch, 25. August 2010 schrieb Arnt Ove Gregersen: > We have now released a major new update of The Linux Signpost, which is a > site for finding Linux software. > Hey, this is good news. It would have been too sad if our work had led to a dead end... Congratulations & thanks! Ralf. P.S.:

BoQ#03: Missing shutdown menu option (was Re: shutdown menu option)

2010-08-18 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Montag, 9. November 2009 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > I believe that what you are talking about is related to membership of > the group powerdev. Or in newer systems is instead tied to consolekit. This is a most valuable hint. Thanks, Jonas, further findings at http://bugs.skolelinux.

Re: BoQ#02: etcinsvk installed, gives errors

2010-08-18 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Mittwoch, 18. August 2010 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: > You need to run etcinsvk as root Hi & thanks. That's what I did on my workstation. "info" returned "enabled" as well. And yes, I checked dpkg -i etcinsvk, too. More debugging needed, please watch http://wiki.skolelinux.de/YoungsterMeetin

Re: shutdown menu option

2010-08-18 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear Nigel, thanks (after months) for this thread, which is very up to date (like: nothing seems having changed - still facint that problem). I also appreciated Jonas' reply giving some hints (powerdev/ck), while I thought he read the request upside down: We don't want to lock in users in their

BoQ#02: etcinsvk installed, gives errors

2010-08-18 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear list, this is issue #02 in my bunch of questions, regarding etcinsvk. Results may lead to an improved documentation in /usr/share/doc/debian-edu-doc-en/debian-edu-lenny-manual.html#AEN1499 Following these instructions (rather:hints) on a workstation (Lenny), e.g. typing "etcinsvk status",

BoQ#01: Leaking disk space due to orphaned files

2010-08-17 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Hi there, when I checked our system after a longer pause, this happened to be the day where login on thin clients stopped working. Soon, I found out, that LTSP's disk space ran out of space - I found files in a range of the last 6 months, that took altogether >10 GB: This were orphaned temp &

Bunch of Questions (BoQ) regarding Lenny and Sarge

2010-08-17 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear list, these days, I am to replace broken hardware running a Sarge tjener. Also, I have to prepare a workstation to be rolled out on new devices. I will follow our policy, asking one question per posting. But beforehand, I dare post the wiki source (English language) where I pre-collect thos

Printbill //Re: Further findings on Print quotas // Re: Pykota

2010-07-01 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Donnerstag, 1. Juli 2010 schrieb RalfGesellensetter: > - a webmin module for print quotas, named pqadmin: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/pqadmin/ Addings: This uses the perl-dbi module and printbill (vansished with webmin): $ apt-cache show printbill Package: printbill Priority:

Re: Further findings on Print quotas // Re: Pykota

2010-07-01 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Donnerstag, 1. Juli 2010 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: > Printer quotas is harder than one should think. Right. Thanks. I just found a fair documentation by Kurt Pfeifle: http://printing.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/quotas.php lpadmin -p LaserdruckerEDV1 -o job-quota-period=604800 -o job-

Further findings on Print quotas // Re: Pykota

2010-06-30 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Freitag, 1. Juni 2007 schrieb laget sebastiaan: > I was wondering if anyone on the list has experience with print quota or > Pykota in a debian edu environment. Still wondering... Searching the web, brought me to these further projects for print quotas - JasMine, PaperCut (mentioned before) -

JasMine abandoned as well? // Re: Pykota

2010-06-30 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Freitag, 1. Juni 2007 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: > The home page on http://www.pykota.com/software/pykota/> make me > believe this is something we should look at for Debian Edu. Just having a look there: List of Features— by Jerome Alet — last modified 2007-12-09 22:57 This is sti

Printing Quotas with PaperCut? // Re: Pykota

2010-06-30 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear list, this thread is quite old, but still not closed. Hence I dare to quote the latest posting below. Our new support service provider (put in place on the level of municipality) suggests using papercut solutions for printing accounting: http://www.dungog.net/wiki/Papercut Its pro

Re: LDAP GUI clients (Petter Reinholdtsen's blog)

2010-06-29 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Montag, 28. Juni 2010 schrieb Ross J. Reedstrom: > As requested, I'm forwarding comments here about what GUI clients seem > to work for LDAP. I've used "gq" for some time. Hi there, interesting topic, making me wonder (excuse my ignorance if nec.): - is there a kind of GUI that does just repre

Re: java applications on thinclients don't work smoothly

2010-05-10 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Freitag, 7. Mai 2010 schrieb Philipp Huebner: > So I can choose between a very slow diskless workstation with good > java performance, or a fast thinclient with very slow java > performance. Hi Philipp, I can confirm that (some) Java apps are really slow via LTSP (and I think they became slo

Re: Running scripts as root when a user log out of X [SOLVED]

2010-04-11 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear Petter, thanks for following this topic. I didn't expect that this is a "[SOLVED]" posting when I read it first - but was sure that you were asking... ;) Hence I did some research on the web. It seems like recent versions of WMs follow freedesktop.org specs and use dbus in order to send s

Re: central logging

2010-04-09 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Hi Martin, Am Freitag, 9. April 2010 schrieb Martin Schulte: > is there a way to find out, which person logged in on which machine? > http://bugs.skolelinux.no/show_bug.cgi?id=865 was a wishlist bug pointing in this direction. Currently I use different scripts to find out who was where. On Linu

Re: NIC bonding

2010-03-13 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Samstag, 13. März 2010 schrieb Nigel Barker: > How can I make the dhcp server on ltspserverxx listen on bond0 > instead of eth1? > Hi Nigel, interesting question - this implies you got bonding working? Did you submit any howtos, yet...? I wonder why only DHCPd should switch its NIC? Maby the

Re: Problem/Blocker: ~/.mozilla blocks login

2010-03-09 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Sonntag, 15. Februar 2009 schrieb Klaus Ade Johnstad: > I've never seen Firefox preventing users from loging in. Maybe home0 > is full? > Group quota was exceeded :[ I wasn't hardly aware of that feature - nor did I know it was set for user groups... Solved now, sorry for blaming Firefox

Solved: Re: LTSP login blocked by .mozilla/mozver.dat ? (Re: failing ltsp login: xsession-errors / firefox & kde?)

2010-03-09 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Samstag, 30. Januar 2010 schrieb RalfGesellensetter: > What I have to try next time (when I get new blocked account > samples): - login from a workstation > - change the startscript for firefox according to > http://bugs.gentoo.org/90438 > > Any further hints/comments

Re: Exim4 on Tjener (Sarge) [solved]

2010-03-04 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Donnerstag, 4. März 2010 schrieb RalfGesellensetter: > pab-...@postoffice.intern U=pab-ges P=local S=356 > pab-...@tjener:~$ delivering 1NnGP2-eE-Vg > LOG: MAIN > ** ?pab-...@postoffice.intern: Unrouteable address > Works now entirely, when I state the domain part (@po

Exim4 on Tjener (Sarge) [partly solved]

2010-03-04 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear list, just for the archives: I might have reported a (suddenly) dysfunctional mail server on Tjener (Sarge): From Oct 2006, root didn't receive any further mails (I can't actually tell if those 112 mails weren't there from the very start). I did some research on the web (because having a

2 GiB in /var/tmp/kdecache-* (LTSP)

2010-02-11 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Hi there, just running out of memory on /var , I spotted hundreds of files and directories under /var/tmp (2201016 bytes). While /tmp is cleaned after reboot, those kde-cache files seem to be kept anyway. Looks like there are konquerors www-cachings. I will clean them right away, but not witho

Re: Same with default disk cache //Re: How can we change the default iceweasel startup / home page?

2010-02-11 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Donnerstag, 11. Februar 2010 schrieb Holger Levsen: > Hi Ralf, > > On Donnerstag, 11. Februar 2010, RalfGesellensetter wrote: > > Hi. once this technique is established, I'd plea to decrease > > default disk cache size in the same row. Context: > > No. Ple

Same with default disk cache //Re: How can we change the default iceweasel startup / home page?

2010-02-11 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Freitag, 22. Januar 2010 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: > I believe we should provide a script to change the default, and call > it from cfengine during installation based on the profile selected. > This will allow schools to change it after installation if they want > to. Preferably, we should g

Re: Skolelinux + Sun Rays?

2010-02-10 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2010 schrieb José "L. Redrejo" Rodríguez: > The latest, some Sun people came to prepare a small pilot for > testing, using their hardware for the clients, but installing the > software in our Debian server. The software they installed was > software from Sun, not LTSP. >

Re: Skolelinux + Sun Rays?

2010-02-10 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Dienstag, 9. Februar 2010 schrieben Sie: > Before implenting LTSP I tested Sun Ray, and I'm sure they're a good > option for some, let's say office environment (using cards to login, > keeping your session over the different clients, and all that nice > stuff), but not at all for education. If u

Re: Skolelinux + Sun Rays?

2010-02-09 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Dienstag, 9. Februar 2010 schrieb lists-debian-...@liszt.debian.org: > RalfGesellensetter schrieb: > > Dear list, > > > > there was a recent request on the German list: > > Is there schools that combine Skolelinux with Sun Ray Clients? > > > > Regards

Footer/Signature of this Mailinglist

2010-02-08 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear listmaster, dear subscribers, I like to discuss if the current footer/signature could be improved/extended: currently: To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org I'd suggest pointing to the maili

Hotels & Directions / Re: International Developer Meeting 19. - 21.2.2010

2010-02-01 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Hello José, Holger, if you don't want to sleep in the "community dorm", this might be a starting point (German): http://www.tourisline.de/unterkunft_hotel/rheinland_pfalz/zweibruecken_pension.html And then there is HRS in most European languages: http://web3.hrs.de/web3/init.do?activity=initVisi

KDE 3.5 Sessions - Autostart & Restore

2010-02-01 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear list, for months now I am chasing a phenomenon that hinders users from login. In short: 1. Log in gives briefly a black screen, then login screen again (ltsp) 2. Removing .mozilla solves the problem in 99.9% of all cases. Now, I always have been wondering: why does KDE need/touch .mozilla to

LTSP login blocked by .mozilla/mozver.dat ? (Re: failing ltsp login: xsession-errors / firefox & kde?)

2010-01-30 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Hello, yesterday I did some testings with user accounts that were not able to log in to LTSP (password is accepted, a black screen shows up for a second, then the login screen comes back; no KDE splash screen or anything). There are no logs in .xsession-errors, so I logged in via ssh on tjener

Re: help me please.. if the possible.. :(

2010-01-30 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear list, this is just for the archive: I had some correspondence with Valery. Am Samstag, 23. Januar 2010 schrieb master (Valery): > introduction of Linux Debian in school He works for a company that maintains a Russian school. The Russian governments supports Linux for schools - I think it is

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