[Ltsp-discuss] Announcing Epoptes, a computer lab management and monitoring tool

[David Hopkins]

Please ignore. I hadn't noticed that I had selected my system as one of the
systems to which to send the broadcast. So, loopbacks are not good.

Sincerely,
Dave Hopkins


2011/10/28 David Hopkins <dahopkins429 at gmail.com>

> Perhaps I spoke to soon.  When I broadcast to more than 5 systems, the
> broadcasting system go to a black screen which is then broadcast to the
> desktops and it is impossible to get the screen back without killing the
> user session that is running epoptes.  The server is dual-quad with 16Gb ram
> and Gb links. Clients are ltsp1620 with 2Gb ram and atom processor, 100Mb
> links.  The load on the server is around 1 and the load on the clients is
> around .3. Network bandwidth is very low (less than 1Mb/s). The mouse is
> still responsive but leaves a mouse trail of little dots across the black
> screen.  Everything else is working, just this issue with broadcasts.
>
> Sincerely,
> Dave Hopkins
>
>
>
> 2011/10/28 David Hopkins <dahopkins429 at gmail.com>
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Alkis Georgopoulos <alkisg at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Στις 28-10-2011, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 10:27 -0400, ο/η David Hopkins
>>> έγραψε:
>>> > Alkis,
>>> >
>>> > I am getting an error when trying to run the latest version of
>>> > epoptes. Specifically, it says my account is not a member of the
>>> > epoptes group. However, that is not the case, see the output from the
>>> > terminal session below.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> first of all, ensure that after your new group membership, you logged
>>> off + back on as the website suggests, so that the new group is applied
>>> to your session.
>>>
>>> If that doesn't solve the problem, please replace your /usr/bin/epoptes
>>> with this one, which has 4 modified lines:
>>> http://paste.ubuntu.com/721617/
>>>
>>> Then run `epoptes` from a terminal, and paste the output here.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Alkis
>>>
>>> Alkis,
>>
>> Thanks! I had logged off/on which didn't help but I twiddled my thumbs for
>> a half-hour and now it works. I didn't make any changes so I guess the issue
>> was cached login information that timed out. I do have nscd running.
>>
>> Epoptes runs very well and the teachers are excited about the capabilities
>> it adds for them.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Dave Hopkins
>>
>>
>
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