Some Advice needed on cloning a Server
David Van Assche
dvanassche at gmail.com
Wed Oct 10 20:01:19 BST 2007
Hi JBarry,
I too used drbl on a second server to propogate everything on my network,
after running into some memory and cpu over-use issues on my first server,
and have to say drbl is impressively simple and reliable to use. Its a shame
ltsp hasn't got the --workstation option worked out, which would in theory
make fat clients of a similar ilk to what drbl has right now.
Anyway, I upgraded my first server to Gutsy in hopes to synchronize the
2, and really wish I hadn't. On upgrade, no user other than the main user
was able to authenticate (local and ldap), and my user and groups was
corrupted irreparably. When adding/changing users by any gui means,
including the one built into edubuntu caused all kind of problems (random
ownership changes of /home directories, users dissapearing, gid numbers in
place of group names.) Even adding a user with sudo adduser would sometimes
work, sometimes not. Then when a user logged in, ownership changes would
happen willy nilly (for example the /home directories being assigned to some
other group than originally.) Ldap was up and running, but refused, by any
means (even reinstalled with fresh databases twice) to authenticate anyone,
complaining continually that it couldn't bind, even though it was already
bound.
I've had to reinstall the server, putting gutsy on it again, but no
upgrade... now everything works fine. So I really advice against anyone
trying to upgrade a production server to Gutsy.
David
On 10/10/07, jbarry <jbgonzaga at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> It has been a long time since my last post, and I am sorry. The
> hardisks came and I have to install it and test everything so I've
> been busy. I end up using DRBL to propagate the whole of them.
>
> Hopefully we can still try to work out a solution for the gcompris
> situation.
>
> Or maybe I'll be asking a totally differentquestion in regards to my
> current setup.
>
> Anyways thanks to all those who helped.
>
> jBarry
>
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