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Agenda for March 5: support and training; beta report; robots r us ;-)?
Ed Dyer aa146@chebucto.ns.ca (902) H 826-7496 CCN Assistant Postmaster
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa146/ W 426-4894 CSuite Technical Workshop
CSuite Workshop - February 26, 1997
Next March 5, 1997
Previous February 19, 1997
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Agenda:
* Changes for CCN
* Remote Services
* Bookmarks in Lynx 2.6
* CSuite Beta Report
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Changes for CCN
* high priority bug fixes
* planned change when CSuite 1.0 is released:
+ migration of CSuite 1.0 to CCN
+ hardware improvements - CCN performance is CPU limited
+ distribution of load - options:
o try offloading httpd and CCN info to a separate machine
o try offloading mail, need to experiment with IMAPD for
efficient mail access in this scenario
+ In theory SunOS could handle two processors, but Solaris
supports them officially.
Possible test configuration
________________________________________________________ Net
| |
Dial In Lines | Dial In Lines |
||||||||||||| | | | | | | |
============ | =========== |
_____|_______|_ ____|_______|_
| | | |
| Chebucto | | Soltst |
| | | CSuite 1.0 |
|_______________| |______________|
| | | | |
| | mail __________ IMAPD _____________| |
home info |
|___|________________ NFS mount __________________|
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* go who, search, people, recent to be extended to other cooperating
Community Nets.
On each of these services, the first link will be, for example:
[1]Find out who is on other Community Networks
implemented by cgi-bin/csuite-remote?who
Establish remote database system, with source in remote.db at CCN,
that will be retrieved as necessary (i.e. refresh if stale or
missing) that will contain the name, location, and links to each
of the remote services, blank line separated.
* Start Page
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Bookmarks in Lynx 2.6
Lynx 2.6 supports multiple bookmarks as an alternative to the single
bookmark file supported in Lynx 2.4.
Options in Lynx Setup
OFF -> single bookmark file
STANDARD -> 26 optional files
ADVANCED -> 26 files without prompts
As we implement Lynx 2.7, for distribution 1.0, the functionality will
need to be double checked.
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CSuite Beta Report
Current status information on CSuite is available through
http://csuite.chebucto.ns.ca/CSuite/changes
Current issues as of February 26
* broken cron
* pine couldn't read pinerc
* testing continues to find new bugs
* add help
Beta Release
Discussion ensued about when to release the Beta for other sites to
try. It was concluded that we should fix as many bugs as possible
(with the observation that the bug discovery rate was rapidly
decreasing ;-) and test the new Help Desk module. Then a fresh install
would be made, with fresh Linux, on owen-sound for another round of
testing.
A list of Debian packages needed for the operating system installation
is to be prepared, for reference in the installation, based on the
Debian 1.2 level.
An estimate of disk partition sizes will also be provided. Based on
our experience on CCN, this is what we came up with:
estimate based on n = number of sessions, w = size of Xwindows
distribution, solve for x, which is a function of number of users to
be supported
partition size notes quotas 2GB example
root 50 + x/4 160
swap 32 + n max. single swap size 128
usr 100 + w w=Xwindows (if installed) 100
var/log 50 + x/4 log area - grows 160
csuite 200 csuite files, help, services 200
home 50 + x users' directories Quotas 500
mail 50 + x/2 users' mail Quotas 275
info 100 + x IP area 550 for a 2 GB drive, x works out to about 450 MB
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Submitted by Ed Dyer aa146@chebucto.ns.ca
Workshop Coordinator David J Murdoch djm@chebucto.ns.ca
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