CSuite Workshop - February 26, 1997

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Agenda:

Changes for CCN
Remote Services
Bookmarks in Lynx 2.6
CSuite Beta Report

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:
- try offloading httpd and CCN info to a separate machine
- 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 __________________|

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.
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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

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

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Submitted by Ed Dyer aa146@chebucto.ns.ca
Workshop Coordinator David J Murdoch djm@chebucto.ns.ca