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infinityTBH, most of my recent experience is with Compaq/HP and IBM gear, which has management tools that don't suck.12:02
infinityThe Adaptec i2o stuff should be good too, but more expensive than the card you have there.12:03
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Pygiwelcome m_peus12:16
m_peushi Pygi12:16
infinityPygi : Seriously, is that a script, or are you just watching like a hawk for /joins?12:16
Pygiinfinity: no script, lol ;)12:16
infinityPygi : If it's a script, I'd really prefer if you turned it off in all the ubuntu-* channels you're in.  If it's just you typing, it's still a bit... Repetitve.12:17
Pygijust randomly look there and there and if somebody joined (no matter when) I say Welcome ;)12:17
Pygiinfinity: it's not a script, but if you can I can stop saying it12:17
infinityWell, a personal greeting here and there is fine "Hey Bob, how's life, haven't seen you in the channel for a few days", but welcoming every single /join gets a bit old. :)12:18
Pygikk12:18
Pygino problem12:19
infinityThanks, dude.12:20
nictukuinfinity, what were your ideas about how to handle remote debconf? a remote database is not good enough, i believe. Is wrapping a readline frontend a decent idea?12:35
nictukuwith dpkg-preconfigure, that is.12:36
nictukuor maybe -feditor12:39
nictukuwith a replaced editor environment12:39
infinityRemote debconf was a sketchy "down the road" thing.12:43
nictukubut it is necessary, isnt it?12:45
infinityThe first cut should really just handle simple package installation, sources.list.d/ setup, and remote package listings would be nice.12:46
infinityRemote debconf is less necessary than you'd think.12:46
infinityI set all my machines to use NONINTERACTIVE frontends, and sort out stuff later.  It's the only sane way (currently) to do remote system management.12:46
infinitySo, expecting people to continue to do that while we figure out the most clever way to do remote debconf is fine by me.12:46
nictukuwhat about conffiles?12:46
infinityI'd rather something that was tightly integrated with debconf than a half-assed solution cause we thought we needed it.12:47
nictukui see.12:47
infinityconffiles can also be done without intervention.12:47
nictukuby using the current installed version?12:47
infinityYou can select "always use old", "always use new", or "ask"12:47
infinityThe latter is clearly the default in both apt and dpkg.12:48
infinityBut you can set either of the other two in apt, and it'll bubble down to dpkg.12:48
infinitySo this system would, initially, just let admins make that choice (always use old" or "always use new", and we'll pass the approriate options down.  We can handle the "ask" mode after the basics are handled.12:49
infinity(The problem with "ask" is the system can't be asyncronous)12:49
infinitySo, in reality, what you probably want is "always use (whichever makes more sense)" coupled with a system that allows you to later go in and view diffs.12:49
infinityWhich is easy enough to do, since you'll have the old/new files there as .dpkg-{new,old} files.12:49
nictukuI see in the draft the use of ssh-server in the clients would be required. I don't see why. Wouldn't the push operations just ask a pull from the client? Could you explain?12:52
infinityYou use SSH to trigger the clients to pull from the server.12:59
infinityThis is not, strictly-speaking, required.  It's not the only way to do it, afterall.12:59
infinityAnd if we're already building a bit of an HTTP-based security model for client->server, it can certainly be done in the other direction too.01:00
infinityThe point is just to have some sort of authenticated trigger, and SSH triggers are something we've used a lot in the past (for instance, all Ubuntu and Debian primary mirrors are triggered using SSH)01:00
nictukuYes that's why I believe too.01:00
nictukus/why/what/01:01
nictukuis there any doc for python-apt? docstrings didn't help me much.02:04
MarioMeyerheya nictuku .. u from br?02:18
nictukuyes.02:18
MarioMeyercan i pvt?02:19
nictukusure02:19
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Pygihehe,matt03:09
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Pygiheh lbm ;)03:18
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Pygisorry ealden, can't say welcome ;)05:29
MarioMeyerheya chara...05:30
Pygichara?05:31
MarioMeyerin pt_BR we call a 'chara' the person who has the same name as ours...05:31
MarioMeyer:P05:31
Pygiah ;)05:32
Pygihey Mario05:32
ealdenPygi: why not?05:32
ealdenhehe05:32
Pygiealden: I was 'forbiden' to say welcome to everyone who joins ;)05:32
ealdenWTH hehehe05:32
MarioMeyerlol05:33
ealdenumm05:34
ealdenPygi: ok05:34
ealdenheheh05:34
Pygiheh ;)05:34
Unfunlol05:44
Pygiok, it's isn't that funny ;)05:46
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neuralisinfinity: ping07:26
neuralisfabbione: ping07:27
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fabbioneneuralis: pong?07:50
neuralisfabbione: hey! long time no see07:50
neuralisfabbione: when you have a chance, can you look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTesting (bottom) and pitch in ideas for what else belongs there07:51
fabbioneneuralis: no.. i didn't even know there was a spec07:52
neuralisfabbione: neither did i. this is part of the CommunityServerHardwareTesting spec, i inherited it from infinity on the last day of ubz07:52
fabbioneah ok07:53
neuralisfabbione: but mdz had something else in mind for it entirely, so that's what ServerTesting is -- i just braindumped the obvious things that came to mind at the bottom07:53
fabbionei will have to look at it07:53
neuralisfabbione: okay, thanks. if you think of anything else that we'd want people to test, let me know or just add it to the page.07:54
fabbioneok07:54
fabbionei wil07:54
fabbione+l07:54
neuralisbtw, we have an almost-complete full userspace port of openssi to dapper07:54
neuraliseverything except udev (which is from warty), because we're sticking with our 2.6.10 kernel07:55
fabbioneah nice07:55
fabbioneudev is changed a lot07:55
fabbioneremember we have upstream version freeze mid January07:55
neuralisyep, i've notified our developers, they know about the deadline07:56
fabbioneyes and getting the code a bit before that is better07:57
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neuralisi also haven't gotten around to asking mdz when it makes sense to start hardware certification for servers07:57
neuralisi.e. at what point in the release cycle07:58
neuralisi'm thinking feature freeze. you?07:58
fabbionepossibly.. we need to ask him07:58
fabbionesorry i am not particularly helpful today07:58
fabbionei am at about 16 hours into kernel security07:58
fabbioneand i am tired07:58
neuralisno problem, i mailed him, so he'll respond when he gets back from vacation07:58
neuralisouch! sorry, man07:59
neuraliswell none of this is urgent, so don't worry about it, we'll talk later07:59
fabbioneok :)08:03
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sebest_hello11:02
Pygihi11:02
sebest_i'd like to know , where i could find info on what is going on in ubuntu server land (i m already subscribed to the ml)11:03
sebest_i also read the wiki (the spec)11:03
Pygiwell, what exactly are you interested in?11:04
sebest_the web ui and the config files under RCS11:05
Pygihehe, you should ask fabbione about that, but he's probably sleeping now11:05
Pygihe's been squashing bugs for 16 hours ;)11:05
sebest_:)11:05
sebest_i'd like to know if ubuntu-server will have a specific goal (eg: small business) or will be a common server OS like debian/redhat and the like11:06
Nafalloit will be ubuntu-minimal I guess :-P11:07
Pygiwith a few modifications11:07
NafalloPygi: oh?11:07
sebest_Nafallo, no specificity?11:07
PygiNaffalo: it will feature server tuned kernel, and some other things11:07
PygiI'd rather not go into much detail right now ;)11:08
NafalloPygi: yea, but ubuntu-minimal + server-kernel is what will differ from a normal install, right? the md5sum-thingie will be able to work on... ehm, "ubuntu-desktop" as well?11:09
sebest_i mean, is the simplicity to administer it a goal?11:09
Pygisebest: that was the goal of project that was supposed to work/ship along with -server, but it is no longer in development11:10
Pygimaybe someone else take it over tho11:10
Pygiand there are some utilities planned11:10
sebest_For the moment i don't really see what is the specificity of ubuntu server against a vanilla debian?11:10
sebest_first i thought it would be done to nicely integrate with the desktop version11:11
Pygihere's the list of packages for -server: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/daily/current/dapper-install-i386.list11:11
sebest_eg: ease centralized user administration: ldap/kerberos, central update of many workstations11:12
Nafallosebest_: I don't think we will have the manpower to develop that for dapper.11:13
Pygimaybe dapper+111:13
sebest_Nafallo, i'm asking question to well understand the goals of the project11:13
Nafallosebest_: ah, thought you tried to make up your mind if you would install debian or ubuntu. sorry :-).11:15
Pyginafallo: :)11:15
sebest_Nafallo , no :)11:15
Nafallosebest_: fabbione is working on some goodies we will have already in dapper though :-P11:15
sebest_Nafallo, in fact i'd like to contribute on specific things, but i didn't want to duplicate11:16
sebest_so i'm trying to get involve, and find some sources of informations on what is going on11:16
Pygihm, so sebest, wanna contribute?11:17
Nafalloyea, same here :-).11:17
Pygisend a mail to the server list, and I believe you will  be lead from there11:17
Nafalloif I can find something I could do, that is ;-)11:17
Pyginaffalo: I know about you ;)11:18
sebest_Pygi, i already mailed in the ml :)11:18
Pygisebest: well, good, then :)11:18
sebest_i read the the wiki and noticed that log aren't mention11:18
Pyginafallo: go work on simple implementation of central update workstations utility ;)11:18
sebest_i think it's a really important feature missing11:18
sebest_i hope we won't be left in the cold with the old syslogd ? :)11:19
Nafallohttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerCandy11:19
NafalloPygi: pffft :-P11:19
Pyginafallo: what? ;)11:20
sebest_Nafallo, nothing about logs in this page11:20
Nafallosebest_: no, this is what will hopefully be implemented for dapper.11:20
sebest_Nafallo, what is planned? use something different from syslogd?11:21
Nafallosebest_: I have no idea outside that spec :-)11:22
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tepsipakkilamont: around?11:50

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