<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Stefan,<div><br></div><div>I'm not sure localenroll.pm will do what you think. It's for the auto enrollment process, isn't</div><div>it? Or is there a routine in there that filters logins?</div><div><br></div><div>Under system configuration you can redirect logins to a different machine except for from certain</div><div>IP addresses. The only hitch I realized is that as far as I can tell, it has to be another machine in</div><div>the cluster, which is hard to do when it's out of the cluster.</div><div><br></div><div>The nice thing is that the emails are showing up within a few minutes of going out. Thank you,</div><div>Stuart, for updating mailman!</div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 6, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Stefan Bisitz wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Thanks, Mark. This is helpful.<br><br>To assure that no others than the tester personnel can login, I think I <br>will adjust localenroll.pm.<br><br>By the way: Funny to find your answer in my inbox before the actual <br>question... :-)<br><br>Stefan<br><br><br>On 06.07.2011 16:28 CEST, Lucas, Mark wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">We have a development server that has the hostname oucapa2 and domain ohiou,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the same as our main library server.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Since it is in the development cluster, none of the machines in the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">production cluster<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">know of it's existence. It does not interfere or confuse the production<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">cluster.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">It has a different IP address than the regular library server and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">different hosts.tab and domain.tab.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The only real risk is that a student somehow gets logged into the wrong<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">machine by<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">somehow getting the IP address of the development server (not a high<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">risk in my mind).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">At the last meeting we were actually talking about setting up a small<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">cluster in between<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">development and production, which cloned the full library servers at<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">several of the institutions.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">This would provide a close-to-production environment for LC 3.0 testing.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Hope this helps!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Mark<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 6, 2011, at 10:02 AM, Stefan Bisitz wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">[06.07.2011 16:02 CEST]<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Hi,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">To avoid chaos, I want to make sure that my idea works.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I'd like to clone one of our production servers for testing purposes. I<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">do not need connection to the LON-CAPA cluster but I want to have all<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">local users, problems and courses as well as the related data.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Is it really okay to "copy" the whole server, configure it as<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">"standalone" and connect it to the internet? Copy means to process most<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">of the steps as described on <a href="http://loncapa.org/hardwareupgrade.html">http://loncapa.org/hardwareupgrade.html</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">which is basically copying the home folder.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Even not connecting it to the internet could mean to have two very<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">similar servers in the same local network, e.g. domain and host id would<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">be the same.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Thanks in advance for sharing any doubts,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Stefan Bisitz<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">LON-CAPA-admin mailing list<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:LON-CAPA-admin@mail.lon-capa.org">LON-CAPA-admin@mail.lon-capa.org</a> <<a href="mailto:LON-CAPA-admin@mail.lon-capa.org">mailto:LON-CAPA-admin@mail.lon-capa.org</a>><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-admin">http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-admin</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Mark Lucasemail: <a href="mailto:lucasm@ohiou.edu">lucasm@ohiou.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:lucasm@ohiou.edu">mailto:lucasm@ohiou.edu</a>><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">252D Clippinger Labphone: (740)597-2984<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Department of Physics and Astronomyfax: (740)593-0433<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ohio University<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Athens, OH 45701<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">LON-CAPA-admin mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:LON-CAPA-admin@mail.lon-capa.org">LON-CAPA-admin@mail.lon-capa.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-admin">http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-admin</a><br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>LON-CAPA-admin mailing list<br><a href="mailto:LON-CAPA-admin@mail.lon-capa.org">LON-CAPA-admin@mail.lon-capa.org</a><br>http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-admin<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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