[Server-devel] Collaboration server for existing network

Jerry Vonau jvonau at shaw.ca
Sat Mar 27 11:36:28 EDT 2010


On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 21:35 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
> <sridhar at laptop.org.au> wrote:
> > I totally empathise. I'm trying to work out a solution, but like you
> > I've got other tasks as well. It's tricky for me as I'm new to this
> > OLPC stuff, having only started with OLPC Australia a couple of weeks
> > ago (and there's a lot for me to learn outside of the XS sphere as
> > well!). Good times :)
> 
> Welcome to the Jungle! ;-)

<snip>

> I wrote a how to for you, and I honestly put a serious effort in
> finding the most reasonable, least complicated,
> least-likely-to-explode path. I cannot formally support it, but it's a
> _good_ plan of action, just needs you to try it out and there may be
> some detail to iron out.
> 
> Instead of looking into it, you are proposing some very crazy plans.
> 
> Please -- please, assume those plans come from the architect of the
> thing, he might know a thing or two, and that they are the easiest,
> shortest path to your destination. Even the one labelled "hard" is
> _not_ hard compared to some of the stuff being discussed here.
> 
> If in doubt, trust me a bit :-)
> 
> > Indeed, I'm working on it now. I'm finding it somewhat tricky
> > understanding everything that's going on underneath, so that's why I'm
> > asking the list for advice.
> 
> Which you got. Top quality advice. Don't ignore it :-)
> 

Think I've got the details little ironed out, with one little wrinkle,
idmgr looks like its ignoring it's idmgr.conf file, because BIND_DOMAIN
s/b BIND_ADDRESS. I had to # the BIND_ADDRESS in idmanager.py to get it
to respect the config file.  Should I file a ticket for this?

Jerry
 




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