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Channel log from 2 March 2008   (all times are UTC)

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<Q-FUNK>
warren: ?
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<artista_frustrad>
is there a package for student control manager for debian?? if not, where can I get the sources ?
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<sepski>
i have heard of a thing called controlaula, not sure if it supports thin clients yet
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<Q-FUNK>
hmm
07:07
good question
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<laga>
hum
08:29
timezone on my clients is set to UTC but i'm in UTC+1. is that a known problem?
08:30
interesting. it's supposed to be working. that plugin must be failing.
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<laga>
035-copy-timezone is indeed working, eg it copies /etc/timezone. it looks like /etc/localtime is not updated, though
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<johnny>
artista_frustrad, check italc?
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<talntid>
hi all. I just installed edubuntu and got DHCP working...
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now when I boot the thin client, it doesn't get the file to boot...
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i configured DHCP with webmin... ideas? :)
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<johnny>
you prolly shouldn't have, afaik you adjust the one in /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf which is prolly not the one webmin edits
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<laga>
maybe you should pastebin your dhcpd config
13:47
true
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what he said ;)
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<talntid>
ok
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actually, it did edit that one
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hold on, the server is on a network with no internet, i'll pastein it though
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http://pastebin.com/m3ecaaab7
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<laga>
that looks like the default config
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<talntid>
cause i didn't change example.org? :)
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<laga>
heh, no because the IP range is still the same :)
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<talntid>
it may be near default. the settings work though
13:59
right. those are my optimal settings
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<laga>
great
13:59
so, where exactly does it fail to boot?
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<talntid>
when the thin client tries to boot.. it says...
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tftp error - file not found
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<laga>
what file does it try to download?
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<talntid>
no idea
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thats what im trying to figure out too ;)
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don't know where that is configured and all
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no ideas? :)
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i would assume the files in the dhcpd.conf
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which do not exist on my install.
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if i locate the pxelinux.0
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I get 3 different paths
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/opt/ltso/amd64/boot/pxelinux.0
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/opt/ltso/amd64/usr/lib/syslinux/pxelinux.0
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and..
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/var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/amd64/pxelinux.0
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can't find a nbi.img anywhere
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<johnny>
are your clients amd64 ?
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<talntid>
negative
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the server is
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<johnny>
then having an amd64 chroot won't work
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<talntid>
is that a problem? (i know the clients can;t be 64..."
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<johnny>
you need ltsp-build-client -a i36
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err i386
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<talntid>
invalid option -- a
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<johnny>
try --arch ?
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if not.. read the man page
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i don't remember the name otherwise
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<talntid>
-- dist maybe?
14:11
same thing?
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<johnny>
it's been 4 months
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since i've set mine up
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<talntid>
yeah
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<talntid>
it was --arch :)
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<johnny>
delete your amd64 dirs
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under /opt/ltsp and /var/lib/tftpboot
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<talntid>
done
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setting up internet on the server so it can get the i386 files
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<achandrashekar>
hello, when managing two ltsp servers that are load balanced via dhcp, how are y'all dealing with the appropriate right for say "teachers" versus students. Im using edubuntu 7.10
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<vagrantc>
ok, today's python question ... i just need a fairly basic regex match against a filename ...
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in shell, i've had good luck with: egrep [^0-9a-zA-Z_\-]*$
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the help on the "re" module in python is not particularly informative
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<johnny>
how basic?
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<vagrantc>
the equivalent of that egrep regex ...
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<johnny>
but what are you actually tring to get
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i think there might be a simpler way
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<vagrantc>
i have a string, and i want to figure out if it matches the regex.
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<johnny>
than using a regex
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tell me what you want the regex to match
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<vagrantc>
foo
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<johnny>
context please?
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<vagrantc>
i'm trying to implement run-parts in python, and want to match it's rules for valid filenames
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the english equivalent to what i'm trying to match is "the names must consist entirely of upper and lower case letters, digits, underscores, and hyphens"
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so i have a list of filenames, and i want to see if each of them matches that rule
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is that sufficient context?
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<warren>
why reimplement in python?
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<vagrantc>
warren: because *some distros* don't have a decent run-parts implementation :P
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i'm trying to do this so it's distro-independent ... it can't be that difficult.
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<warren>
I mean, is this really necessary given the hack that is in functions now?
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<vagrantc>
all i need is to match a filename against a regex
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warren: i'm trying to implement it in ltspfsmounter, which is written in python
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warren: so a shell function isn't particularly useful.
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<warren>
oh
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<vagrantc>
regex in python is so absolutely alien to me.
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ah, ok... i think i've found what i need
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hrm... gah this is complicated.
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there's got to be a simpler regex library for python
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ok, i'm getting the swing of it ...
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or not
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x=re.compile('^[a-zA-z0-9]+')
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what i don't understand, is why x.match('foo.bar') ... matches
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match is only the beginning of a string
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maybe the ^ is not needed then...
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ah ...
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x=re.compile('^[a-zA-z0-9]*$')
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don't know if i should use * or +
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<vagrantc>
got it.
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well, still unsure on * or + ... both seem to behave properly.
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i think * ... as someone could actually include a file that's only a single character ...
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<johnny>
does fnmatch not do enough?
16:14* vagrantc wasn't aware of fnmatch
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<vagrantc>
johnny: i've gotten it working with re.compile ... but if you've got something better, by all means ...
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johnny: you're acting as though i have a clue with python :P
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<johnny>
oh.. well the thing is
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i don't
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i'm just guessing
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i'm still learning python myself
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<vagrantc>
having no idea what fnmatch is, where it's from, etc., i cannot compare it to re :)
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<johnny>
web search python fnmatch ?
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http://docs.python.org/lib/module-fnmatch.html
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i'm heading down to where my ltsp install is, i'll be back online in 20
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<vagrantc>
oh, that looks much simpler.
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actually, too simple ...
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doesn't seem to support ^ or $ ... or "any number of additional matches"
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i'll stick with "re" ... it wasn't too bad ... just frustrating to figure out how it worked.
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<johnny_>
sup vagrantc did i miss anything?
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<vagrantc>
johnny: other than: 14:24 -!- Egyptian[Home] [n=Egyptian@62.117.54.251] has quit [Connection timed out]
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absolutely nothing
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although, seconds ago i re-worked the patch i had to add icons on the KDE desktop to be used with the new ltspfs hooks i implemented last night
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<johnny_>
eword
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so did fnmatch work for you?
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<vagrantc>
johnny: no, it was missing things like ^ and $ for beginning and end of line, as well as "match any number of FOO"
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"re" is working for me.
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just was really confusing as to how to use it, at first.
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<johnny_>
word
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hmm.. i should really follow what you guys are doing outside of here
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<vagrantc>
klausade: so, i just re-worked your patch for KDE desktop icons to work with ltspfs's hook system that i just wrote.
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klausade: hope to include it in a new upload soon.
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<talntid>
heh
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finally got internet working and am ltsp-client-build --arch i386
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its downloading the whole internet. :)
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<vagrantc>
you can set how much of the internet it downloads with --internet-percentage
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<laga>
for a minute i was going to check --extra-help...
17:56* vagrantc grins
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<talntid>
hmmm
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:)
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anyone have first hand knowledge of installing x11vnc on the thin clients so i can look at them via the thin client manager?
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looking at a tutorial, but it seems to be made for people who are using a 386 server :)
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dumdedum
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<johnny_>
talntid, check italc
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<talntid>
?
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hm, neat
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gotta compile from sources it seems
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is that what you use?
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<johnny_>
talntid, uhmm. i don't know anything about it.. except that is is replacing the current student control panel
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in ubuntu hardy
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since the current app is unmaintained
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<TelnetManta>
Can anyone tell me how to get around the problem of having multiple PXE boot servers on the same network?
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.
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I use my existing server for software deployment services.....
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