| === Pricey is now known as PriceChild | |
| [00:46] <LaserJock> join #ubuntu-desktop | |
| [00:46] <LaserJock> bah | |
| [03:42] <yyeago> I've got an edubuntu lab. What would be the best way to deploy all machines with exactly the same setup? | |
| === greeneggsnospam is now known as jsgotangco | |
| [10:48] <sakhi> hi highvoltage RichEd | |
| [10:48] <RichEd> hi | |
| [10:55] <sakhi> anyone familiar with perl? | |
| [10:55] <sakhi> I busy learning it. | |
| [10:56] <sakhi> I'm busy creating user accounts but I don't want them to have a password, rather to automatically logon | |
| [10:56] <sakhi> using the username only | |
| [10:57] <kgoetz> not sure you can have an empty password | |
| [10:57] <stgraber> that should be a username option | |
| [10:58] <stgraber> though if you are using LTSP it may causes some problems | |
| [10:58] <stgraber> like SSH or LDM not accepting empty password | |
| [10:59] <sakhi> ahhh so if the script does the following egrep "^$username" /etc/passwd >/dev/null | |
| [10:59] <sakhi> that could cause problems on LTSP? | |
| [11:00] <sakhi> as I am running edubuntu | |
| [11:00] <stgraber> well, you should try this : | |
| [11:00] <stgraber> create a test account with useradd and setting the password to empty | |
| [11:00] <stgraber> edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config so it allows empty passwords | |
| [11:00] <stgraber> then try a login from a thin client | |
| [11:01] <stgraber> but I don't think ldm has any support for empty passwords | |
| [11:01] <stgraber> ogra_cmpc: ^ | |
| [11:04] <sakhi> stgraber: ok, I also want all the users to have the same interface when they logon i.e.Background | |
| [11:05] <sakhi> I know have to do something in /etc/skel ? | |
| [11:05] <ogra_cmpc> stgraber, hardy has support for ssh key based logins | |
| [11:05] <sakhi> so that presence can take place in all the users | |
| [11:05] <stgraber> /etc/skel is what will be copied to /home/username so modifiying it will apply to all new users | |
| [11:05] <ogra_cmpc> but dont ask me how that works, i havent played with it yet | |
| [11:05] <stgraber> but they will still be able to change the settings afterwards | |
| [11:06] <stgraber> you may want to have a look at sabayon and the lockdown tool (I never used them but I think that's their goal to do such things) | |
| [11:10] <johnny> sadly they don't provide a way to edit the global gconf | |
| [11:11] * johnny tries to decide of the extra expense of the dvi cable is worth it | |
| [11:13] <stgraber> johnny: I have a box full of them here (monitor have the DVI plug but those tell computers don't) :) | |
| [11:14] <johnny> well i am buying an adapter for other computers | |
| [11:14] <johnny> the project has dvi on it , but i don't know how much it really matters to it | |
| [11:15] <johnny> i can't figure out what model it is, because the mount obscures it all, and i can't find the key :) | |
| [11:15] <sakhi> thanks | |
| [11:15] <johnny> i can buy alot of svga cables | |
| [11:15] <johnny> for the price of 1 dvi | |
| [11:16] <johnny> 100ft vga is less than 35ft dvi | |
| [11:26] <stgraber> johnny: yes, DVI is expensive ... I should really think of selling those 50 DVI cables :) | |
| [17:10] <alesan> hi, anyone knows how can I draw a triangle in QCad, when I know all the dimensions of the sides? | |
| [17:39] <ScorpKing> is there a pxe boot image for ltsp on edubuntu? i get "tftpd[4990]: RRQ from 172.19.1.250 filename /lts/2.4*/pxelinux.0" "tftpd[4990]: sending NAK (1, File not found) to 172.19.1.250" | |
| [17:49] <ScorpKing> got it. :) nvm | |
| [17:51] <ScorpKing> now i get "this workstation isin't authorized to connect to server" on the clients | |
| [17:51] <ScorpKing> isn't* | |
| [18:04] <ScorpKing> nvm, problem solved here - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToCookEdubuntu/Chapters/LTSPManagement | |
| [19:04] <johnny> ogra_cmpc, the patch is now in libxklavier cvs | |
| [19:04] <johnny> need to test it there, it got simplified | |
| [19:06] <ogra_cmpc> great i'll hunt down seb tomorrow so he includes it | |
| [19:27] <ScorpKing> how do i change the usplash theme for the thin clients? | |
| [21:11] <Armagon> Greetings. I've got an old iMac G3 with a bad battery for the internal clock. I've set up a shell on screen 2 and ldm on screen 7. It will not start ldm properly until I set the time (it thinks it is 1904) in the shell. | |
| [21:12] <Armagon> I read somewhere that ubuntu runs ntpupdate in the startup process. I installed ntp on my server, and I think I have properly configured things so the client can query it -- it works fine if I run "ntpupdate-debian" on the shell on the client. | |
| [21:12] <Armagon> Does anyone, perchance, know if ntpupdate is really called during the startup process? It doesn't seem to be mentioned in dmesg, and there is no /var/log/daemon.log on the client (although I don't know if it'd be mentioned there in any case.) | |
| [21:18] <Armagon> Is there a way for me, in a shell script, to log something and have it show up in dmesg's output? | |
| [21:22] <johnny> i wouldn't show up in dmesg.. | |
| [21:22] <johnny> it might show up in /var/log/messages tho | |
| [21:22] <johnny> not daemon | |
| [21:24] <Armagon> As root in the client shell, /var/log contains: Xorg.6.log Xorg.6.log.old fsck/ ldm.log news/ | |
| [21:24] <Armagon> darn. | |
| [21:25] <Armagon> Hey, I can add a script and make it create a log file. I would think it should have read/write access. | |
| [21:36] <Armagon> Ok, it didn't work. | |
| [21:37] <Armagon> I made a script called /opt/ltsp/powerpc/etc/init.d/fixtime.sh | |
| [21:37] <Armagon> #!/bin/sh | |
| [21:37] <Armagon> (ntpdate-debian && date) > /var/log/fixtime.log | |
| [21:37] <Armagon> I chmoded it to 755 (as the other files in the directory are) | |
| [21:38] <Armagon> In /opt/ltsp/powerpc/etc/lts.conf, I added (previously): RCFILE_01=fixtime.sh | |
| [21:38] <Armagon> Now that I have rebooted the client, the time is still wrong, and no /var/log/fixtime.log exists. | |
| [21:39] <Armagon> I'm pretty sure my client is using NFS (and not NBD), so I didn't feel that need to run any post-processing steps; I just edited the file. | |
| [21:39] <Armagon> Did I follow the correct steps to make a custom script run? | |
| [22:23] <Armagon> It's been a half-hour since I posted my problem, but I got it to work! | |
| [22:23] <Armagon> instead of using RCFILE_01 = fixtime.sh, I needed RCFILE_01 = /etc/init.d/fixtime.sh | |
| [22:32] <Armagon> How can I allow users to log in to a different window manager, such as KDE? (I installed edubuntu-desktop-kde on top of my edubuntu server, but that didn't add more options than just "default" for when a client logs in.) | |
| [23:07] * ScorpKing wonders if there's any clever people in this channel.. | |
| [23:36] <felipe__> Hello, could someone provide me the link for the edubuntu 7.10 dvd, from the edubuntu webpage I only found the hardy dvd. | |
| [23:43] <Armagon> http://www.edubuntu.org/Download ought to work for you. | |
| [23:43] <Armagon> oh dvd ... | |
| [23:44] <ScorpKing> weird.. it sais 7.10 dvd but only hardy is there. heh | |
| [23:44] <pygi> felipe__, http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/7.10/release/edubuntu-7.10-dvd-i386.iso | |
| [23:44] <pygi> here | |
| [23:44] <Armagon> Near the bottom of the page, where there are two links for DVDs, note that they say "current" on the end. | |
| [23:45] <Armagon> Take the "current" off, and follow the link. You should be able to choose gusty | |
| [23:45] <pygi> Armagon, or just use my link xD | |
| [23:45] <Armagon> Just use the link pygi provided. | |
| [23:47] <ScorpKing> ah ok. now i see. ;) | |
| [23:47] <felipe__> thanks for the link | |
| [23:47] <ScorpKing> nite guys | |
| [23:48] <felipe__> Im on a 1Megabit internet connection and Im downloading the dvd at 6kB/s..... | |
| [23:48] <felipe__> sucks | |