From e049a95f8b79657bf595da247e4fad19148aba27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philip Sargent <philip.sargent@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 02:02:23 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] urls fixed --- handbook/computing/computer.html | 7 ++++++- handbook/computing/netconfig.html | 6 ++++-- handbook/l/hut-cables.html | 3 ++- 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/handbook/computing/computer.html b/handbook/computing/computer.html index fa41b7457..624a18abb 100644 --- a/handbook/computing/computer.html +++ b/handbook/computing/computer.html @@ -123,5 +123,10 @@ a high-power dual antenna WiFi tiny black box (Alfa 036ACH) on a small shelf hig <p>This is now described on <a href="netconfig.html">a separate page</a>. <hr /> -Go on to: <a href="onlinesystems.html">Expo online systems</a><br /> +Go on to: + <a href="../l/hut-cables.html">Hut cabling</a><br /> +Go on to: + <a href="netconfig.html">Network configuration</a><br /> +Go back to: +<a href="onlinesystems.html">Expo online systems</a><br /> <hr /></body></body></html> diff --git a/handbook/computing/netconfig.html b/handbook/computing/netconfig.html index 34862110e..2f0f1a27a 100644 --- a/handbook/computing/netconfig.html +++ b/handbook/computing/netconfig.html @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ still upright and have not been knocked sideways. <p>The <em>Expo laptops</em> acquire a dynamic local address of this form, as does any other laptop or phone connecting to this wifi. <h3>How it works - in words</h3> -<p>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_Aspire_One">Acer Aspire One</a> netbook is running Debian Linux operating system with the lightweight <a href="https://xfce.org/">[xfce]</a> window mananger. It runs a script once every 60s which checks whether it can access the internet. If it can't, it attempts a re-login to the Gasthof wifi system, which takes 5-10 seconds. If it still can't access the internet it deletes nearly all the configuration and reloads everything - which takes about 30s. +<p>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_Aspire_One">Acer Aspire One</a> netbook is running Debian Linux operating system with the lightweight <a href="https://xfce.org/">[xfce]</a> window mananger. It runs a script once every 60s which checks whether it can access the internet. If it can't, it attempts a re-login to the Gasthof wifi system, which takes 5-10 seconds. If it still can't access the internet it deletes nearly all the configuration and reloads everything - which takes about 30s. The mere fact that it accesses the internet every minute is enough for the Gasthof system to keep the connection open - until it times out completely which it does after an hour or so. <p>Because of a permissions difficulty, the scripts on the netbook live in <var>/root/fakenet</var> so that the cron job (running as root) can access them. [This is not the usual Linux place to keep such things.] The cron file lives in the usual place in <var>/etc/cron/cron.d/fakenet</var>. @@ -135,6 +135,8 @@ the Gasthof. We continued with the wifi service in the hut but now it also conne <p>The part of the script that logs into the Gasthof wifi was written by Mark Shinwell in 2017 and re-edited by Sam Wenham in 2019. Wookey made it more robust on expo in 2022. <hr /> -Go back to: <a href="computer.html">Basecamp computers</a><br /> +Go back to + <a href="../l/hut-cables.html">Hut cabling</a><br /> + Go back to: <a href="computer.html">Basecamp computers</a><br /> Go on to: <a href="onlinesystems.html">Expo online systems</a><br /> <hr /></body></body></html> diff --git a/handbook/l/hut-cables.html b/handbook/l/hut-cables.html index df4474b56..1985c496c 100644 --- a/handbook/l/hut-cables.html +++ b/handbook/l/hut-cables.html @@ -51,8 +51,9 @@ <li>We do not plug anything into the USB socket. </ul> <h3 id="network">Networking Software - configuration nerding</h3> -<p>This is now described on <a href="netconfig.html">a separate page</a>. +<p>This is now described on <a href="/handbook/computing/netconfig.html">a separate page</a>. <hr /> + Go back to <a href="/handbook/computing/computer.html#network">Basecamp computers</a>. <hr></body>