Re: Bug#758116: Please be verbose whether you would like to get your Blend promoted by tasksel

2014-08-28 Thread Steven Chamberlain
r Debian Edu installers do some special configuration before the tasksel stage? Might this be too late in the installer to correctly install at least some of the machine types? Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: shutdown-at-night kicked me off

2013-09-03 Thread Steven Chamberlain
an avoid shutting down the machine. > if ! dbus-send --system --print-reply \ > --dest=org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit \ > /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager\ > org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.GetSystemIdleHint \ > | grep 'true$'; then > return 1 > fi Regards, --

Re: purge a file/url from squid (was: KDE issues)

2013-09-03 Thread Steven Chamberlain
ult squid config only allows the PURGE method from localhost anyway. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lis

Re: Edu mainserver - raid

2013-06-10 Thread Steven Chamberlain
should be about the same either way. The best idea though is definitely to try it. Boot a live system and test with iozone or bonnie++ with several GiB of data. But predicting IOPS/throughput a deployed system will need is hard... Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org

Re: Analysis of failing Nagios ping check in Wheezy

2013-05-28 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Oops, sent this by mistake before I was finished... > What about using a suffix similar to the ~deb70u1 scheme of > proposed-updates; for example ~edu70u1 (Debian Edu, v7.0, update 1). Actually it is ~deb7u1, so I would suggest something like ~edu7u1 for this backport? Regards, --

Re: Analysis of failing Nagios ping check in Wheezy

2013-05-28 Thread Steven Chamberlain
ian Edu, v7.0, update 1). Due to the special handling of the ~ tilde character in version numbers, the 'real' 0.3-5 package would supersede it if/when accepted into Wheezy. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-requ...@lists.debi

Re: XFCE desktop option

2013-05-19 Thread Steven Chamberlain
bian.org/gitweb/?p=tasksel/tasksel.git;a=blob;f=debian/control;h=628f47da9db203f22a39a90c905d0a2485df7e00;hb=d481e5b565b8454f442ced4f7ff48f4502881ed2#l201 The rest is probably covered by generic Debian Edu desktop tasks. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-r

Re: no home-directory on diskless workstations

2012-05-11 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hierarchy Standard. If you really need a lot of home dirs, or for them to maybe reside within separate mount points, why not /home/0/*, or /home/s/steven, or /home/new-nas/user1 etc.? This way at least all home dirs are still within /home/ where they're expected to be. Regards, -- Stev

Re: Research/Questions on GOsa² issue: ,,unescaped arguments used on a command line''

2012-04-26 Thread Steven Chamberlain
re, as I think it should do. The change was introduced in the 2.6.12 release. I think maybe Squeeze should cherry-pick that commit for s-p-u but I haven't been able to set up a test installation to try this yet. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: skolelinux.org and download locations

2012-04-08 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 12/03/12 21:52, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > * The CD icon on http://www.slx.no/en/downloads still links to a Lenny > DVD install image (the text links seem okay though). This is still broken after three times I have mentioned it on the debian-edu list... Next to the DVD icon/link a

Re: Debian Local Area Network' (Debian-LAN)

2012-04-08 Thread Steven Chamberlain
an 254 hosts...). Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- 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/4f81b99f.60...@pyro.eu.org

Re: Guest session?

2012-04-01 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 01/04/12 21:06, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Nope. Why do you ask? ... I'm surprised you didn't already consider this! http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_e_book_kiosk_for_the_public_libraries_.html Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Guest session?

2012-04-01 Thread Steven Chamberlain
lications, look and feel, centralised management and a thin-client deployment model. But not doing any authentication or mounting of writable network shares. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: Fwd: Re: Authentication Failure

2012-03-31 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 31/03/12 11:11, Alessandro Fama wrote: > Thanks guys it work after reboot! Hi, That's great. Did you run the ldapmodify command again under sudo before rebooting, or did you not do that? Just curious if that it any difference. Thanks, Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyr

Re: Fwd: Re: Authentication Failure

2012-03-29 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 29/03/12 14:04, Alessandro Fama wrote: > segreteria@tjener:~$ ldapmodify -QY EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f > filename.ldif > > modifying entry "cn=config" > > ldap_modify: Insufficient access (50) Hi, Maybe this needs sudo? Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro

Re: Fwd: Re: Authentication Failure

2012-03-29 Thread Steven Chamberlain
eference eq Then apply on the LDAP server with: # ldapmodify -QY EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f filename.ldif Completely untested and no idea if this is a proper thing to do :) Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Bug#665696: gosa-sync breaks on passwords containing spaces

2012-03-27 Thread Steven Chamberlain
specific to Debian Edu and that other GOsa users are not at such a risk by default. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- 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/4f71967d.9050...@pyro.eu.org

Bug#665696: gosa-sync breaks on passwords containing spaces

2012-03-26 Thread Steven Chamberlain
have to be removed, or else you are double-quoting and would get extra quotes (single) included within the password. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Handling of raw passwords, quoting, escaping

2012-03-26 Thread Steven Chamberlain
better than I thought, but not perfect. Hopefully the temporarily-stored passwords are held in /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat, rather than remaining in world-readable /var/cache/debconf/config.dat-old after install? I haven't checked this. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- 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/4f70f7fa.5070...@pyro.eu.org

Handling of raw passwords, quoting, escaping

2012-03-26 Thread Steven Chamberlain
ow... Otherwise, the password must be safely sent to kadmin, then discarded without ever being stored in raw form. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Bug#636219: How can we quote # in a value passed to debconf-set-selections?

2012-03-26 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 26/03/12 19:58, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > Yes that could be a problem, but according to the manual of the version > in Squeeze it seems that embedded comments should not have been allowed. > From debconf-set-selections(1): > >> DATA FORMAT >>The data is

Re: Bug#636219: How can we quote # in a value passed to debconf-set-selections?

2012-03-26 Thread Steven Chamberlain
n in some filename? (It may then get quoted as \# but debconf would still truncate it). Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- 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/4f70bc65.2030...@pyro.eu.org

Re: How can we quote # in a value passed to debconf-set-selections?

2012-03-25 Thread Steven Chamberlain
nable to log in). A workaround has been implemented for Debian Edu but I think other (standard Debian) packages could be affected, perhaps during d-i too. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: How can we quote # in a value passed to debconf-set-selections?

2012-03-25 Thread Steven Chamberlain
changed quite extensively since then). Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- 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/4f6f5467.4090...@pyro.eu.org

Re: How can we quote # in a value passed to debconf-set-selections?

2012-03-25 Thread Steven Chamberlain
ars on the start of a line. According to the debconf-set-selections(1) man page, that was the expected behaviour anyway: > Lines beginning with a # character are > comments. Blank lines are ignored. All other lines set the value... So I propose the attached patch. Thanks! Regards, -- Steven

Bug#664976: debian-edu-config: installer hang during debian-edu-profile run at the end

2012-03-22 Thread Steven Chamberlain
why did slapd get started early? (By snakeoil-on-ice?) And secondly, maybe ldap-debian-edu-install should begin by trying to stop slapd, just in case it's already running at that point. Or otherwise perform a 'restart' instead of 'start'. Regards, -- Steven Chamberla

Re: Running skolelinux virtually in production?

2012-03-22 Thread Steven Chamberlain
ver? I mean, why are the virtualised Skolelinux servers not just one instance that serves all clients? Thanks, Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: Running skolelinux virtually in production?

2012-03-22 Thread Steven Chamberlain
e still available on the network, and the old server hardware was turned off and used for something else now. I think (but haven't tested) if you install Skolelinux main server directly onto a new server, you could install VirtualBox later if you want to run any containers like I did. Regard

Re: SV: Problems with sound on thin clients (Was: Unidentified subject!)

2012-03-22 Thread Steven Chamberlain
t apparently fixed in Fedora 12's 2.6.31. I'm just curious what kernel was running on the thin client (or what is running on the booksized PC now). Could you please show me the output of: $ cat /proc/verison Thanks, Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSC

Re: SV: Problems with sound on thin clients (Was: Unidentified subject!)

2012-03-21 Thread Steven Chamberlain
, before the user logs in and pulseaudio starts. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- 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/4f6a2141.2050...@pyro.eu.org

Re: SV: Problems with sound on thin clients (Was: Unidentified subject!)

2012-03-21 Thread Steven Chamberlain
ut device' (called pulse). The /etc/asound.conf should tell applications to use that as their 'alsa output device'. So it could still be a problem with pulseaudio. You could check syslog for any errors from pulseaudio. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- T

Re: Problems with sound on thin clients (Was: Unidentified subject!)

2012-03-21 Thread Steven Chamberlain
plication also freeze, or anything else happen? You said you see a message about the alsa crash? I'm unsure what that could be. Could you show that to us that somehow? (Copy+paste the text if you can, or screenshot/photo otherwise). Thanks, Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.e

Re: Screencase (was: Please merge bug reporting howtos)

2012-03-13 Thread Steven Chamberlain
ere on a default installation? Thanks, Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- 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/4f5fe1b3.1090...@pyro.eu.org

Re: the links are broken.

2012-03-12 Thread Steven Chamberlain
links on slx.no are broken again.] Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- 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/4f5ecb5e.3040...@pyro.eu.org

Re: skolelinux.org and download locations

2012-03-12 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 12/03/12 21:52, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > The download links in the online manual hosted on > maintainer.skolelinux.org are still broken. The filenames referenced > don't match with the names published in sha256sums. I corrected the > copy in the Debian Wiki though. Never

Re: LibreOffice (was: Skolinux review)

2012-03-12 Thread Steven Chamberlain
x27;t tried) I guess the upgrade would be very easy for standalone desktops (add Backports to APT's sources.list, then "apt-get -t squeeze-backports install libreoffice" on all machines). For thin clients or anything that network-boots I imagine an LTSP image must be rebuilt.

Re: skolelinux.org and download locations

2012-03-12 Thread Steven Chamberlain
ed in sha256sums. I corrected the copy in the Debian Wiki though. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- 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/4f5e700e.60...@pyro.eu.org

Re: new skolelinux mirror: ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de

2012-03-11 Thread Steven Chamberlain
me other bits of cleanup of the Skolelinux Wiki now :) Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- 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/4f5d2161.8080...@pyro.eu.org

Re: new skolelinux mirror: ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de

2012-03-11 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 11/03/12 20:16, Steven Chamberlain wrote: >> The current stable version of Debian Edu / Skolelinux for production can be >> downloaded at: >> http://www.skolelinux.org/en/downloads > > Except it cannot. That website has not been updated yet for the > release, whi

Re: new skolelinux mirror: ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de

2012-03-11 Thread Steven Chamberlain
three textual links below it are all broken The main distribution point for the new release appears to be: ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/cd-squeeze-dvd/ Those Wiki pages are even immutable so I cannot fix it. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-req