oops, my local connection was also dropped.

I think the problem is deeper than just a 'flaky network'. Clients are getting booted after only a few seconds, so something must be out of whack.

Moved sesame server back to the new pc after ANOTHER reboot, and all seems fine now.

Sesame clients and server have been 100% stable and fast for 7 days straight. I have refrained from making any changes in the past 10 days.

In a few days, I will attempt to move Sesame Server back to the original Linux box and see if the stability holds. (I am tempted to install the newest OS with 32-bit lib files on that box, first.)

Steve

Right now I'm trying LinuxMint 12 ("Lisa") which is based on the latest version of Ubuntu.  I'm actually running a "live" DVD.

The latest version of Ubuntu, 11.10 uses Ubuntu's new Unity interface, with an option to use Gnome 3 instead. A lot of users, including me, don't like either of them. They both have a very kludgy, "Gotta know exactly what you want to do in order to start" feeling. Ubuntu 11.10 no longer supports Gnome 2.

Gnome 2 has a simple menu bar across the top with drop-down text menus. The Mint group is in the process of developing their own interface that will fit on top of Gnome 3 and make it have the look and feel of Gnome 2 while allowing access to the Gnome 3 features.

Mint 12's default interface has a look and feel fairly similar to Windows 7, with the start menu in the lower left-hand corner.

According to an article by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at ZDNet, Mint is now the most popular Linux distribution and Ubuntu has dropped to fourth place and according to another article by him (I can't find at the moment) Ubuntu has been in a steady decline for several years.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/the-most-popular-linux-is/9913?tag=content...
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/linux-mint-12s-three-desktops/9919

I've been using Ubuntu for over a year and I've only been using Mint literally a few minutes and it already feels a lot more comfortable than Ubuntu's Unity interface. Although Gnome 3 is different from Unity, it too just feels incredibly awkward.  I'm going to be installing Mint on one of my extra drives and I'll probably be switching to that for Linux.

HI there,
I am somewhat fighting with sesame on ubuntu here too. I am setting up the server on ubuntu running sesame as a deamen, the software being located in the home of the users "sesame" under ~seame/bin/Sesame2.
I am porting from a Windows server with a 3-user license. Now wher do I place the license and rootdirs.ini files?
I have tried the Sesame2, Sesame2/Program and Sesame2/bin (where the start-script is located) directories to no avail.
Any help higly apreciated!!!
best C.

Hi MArk,
thanks for your quick reply, long time no hear!!

I tried to set the variable in the /etc/environment file to make it available at boot. It does not seem to work, however I will have to try again on Monday, cause my remote connection has crashed/rdp does not start anymore.
On my second problem: where does the rootdir.ini have to be.
regards
Carsten

Hi Mark,
after including the variables in the startscript in /etc/init.d and explictely exporting them it is now working, tanks for your help here.
However, I have now encountered a far more serious problem now:
All number, figures, ammounts etc are interpreted strangely!
I have written a booking program for a travel agent that has been running for 9 years now on a MessyWindows PC.
We had planned to move it to linux (Ubuntu 12.04) now for quite some time. Since the Windwos-PC is breaking down, now was the time!
The effect now is that all bookings and all relate information (available rooms, prices etc) are screwed-up. E.g. a trip cositing 799€ now is somewhat like 400Billion!!
Any idea?
I could provide you the databse, if you give me your email.
best Carsten

I have experimented a bit more and it seems the error only occurs when Sesame is started during the boot process of the server (i.e. via init.d). If I start it manually invoking the script in /etc/init.d it will run fine (just the € sign is screwed up!!!).

Here is the startscrip I use in init.d

--------------- Start ---------------

#! /bin/sh

PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/sesame/bin/Sesame2
SESAME_LICENSE_PATH=/home/sesame/bin/Sesame2/s_license2.lic
SESAME_ROOTDIRS_PATH=/home/sesame/bin/Sesame2/rootdirs.ini
export "PATH" "SESAME_LICENSE_PATH" "SESAME_ROOTDIRS_PATH"


### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          skeleton
# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Example initscript
# Description:       This file should be used to construct scripts to be
#                    placed in /etc/init.d.
### END INIT INFO

# Author: Carsten Rietbrock <crietbrock@yahoo.de>
#
# Please remove the "Author" lines above and replace them
# with your own name if you copy and modify this script.

# Do NOT "set -e"

# PATH should only include /usr/* if it runs after the mountnfs.sh script
DESC="Sesame_Server"
NAME=sesame
DAEMON=/home/sesame/bin/Sesame2/Program/$NAME
DAEMON_ARGS="-daemon -server pampeago.dyndns.org "
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME
# USERID=sesame

# Exit if the package is not installed
[ -x "$DAEMON" ] || exit 0

# Read configuration variable file if it is present
[ -r /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME

# Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables
. /lib/init/vars.sh

# Define LSB log_* functions.
# Depend on lsb-base (>= 3.2-14) to ensure that this file is present
# and status_of_proc is working.
. /lib/lsb/init-functions

#
# Function that starts the daemon/service
#
do_start()
{
     # Return
     #   0 if daemon has been started
     #   1 if daemon was already running
     #   2 if daemon could not be started
     start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --test > /dev/null \
           || return 1 &
     start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON -- \
           $DAEMON_ARGS \
           || return 2 &
     # Add code here, if necessary, that waits for the process to be ready
     # to handle requests from services started subsequently which depend
     # on this one.  As a last resort, sleep for some time.
}

#
# Function that stops the daemon/service
#
do_stop()
{
     # Return
     #   0 if daemon has been stopped
     #   1 if daemon was already stopped
     #   2 if daemon could not be stopped
     #   other if a failure occurred
     start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME
     RETVAL="$?"
     [ "$RETVAL" = 2 ] && return 2 &
     # Wait for children to finish too if this is a daemon that forks
     # and if the daemon is only ever run from this initscript.
     # If the above conditions are not satisfied then add some other code
     # that waits for the process to drop all resources that could be
     # needed by services started subsequently.  A last resort is to
     # sleep for some time.
     start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --retry=0/30/KILL/5 --exec $DAEMON
     [ "$?" = 2 ] && return 2 &
     # Many daemons don't delete their pidfiles when they exit.
     rm -f $PIDFILE
     return "$RETVAL"
}

#
# Function that sends a SIGHUP to the daemon/service
#
do_reload() {
     #
     # If the daemon can reload its configuration without
     # restarting (for example, when it is sent a SIGHUP),
     # then implement that here.
     #
     start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME
     return 0 &
}

case "$1" in
  start)
     [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"
     do_start
     case "$?" in
           0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;
           2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;
     esac
     ;;
  stop)
     [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME"
     do_stop
     case "$?" in
           0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;
           2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;
     esac
     ;;
  status)
       status_of_proc "$DAEMON" "$NAME" && exit 0 || exit $?
       ;;
  #reload|force-reload)
     #
     # If do_reload() is not implemented then leave this commented out
     # and leave 'force-reload' as an alias for 'restart'.
     #
     #log_daemon_msg "Reloading $DESC" "$NAME"
     #do_reload
     #log_end_msg $?
     #;;
  restart|force-reload)
     #
     # If the "reload" option is implemented then remove the
     # 'force-reload' alias
     #
     log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC" "$NAME"
     do_stop
     case "$?" in
       0|1)
           do_start
           case "$?" in
                 0) log_end_msg 0 ;;
                 1) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Old process is still running
                 *) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Failed to start
           esac
           ;;
       *)
            # Failed to stop
           log_end_msg 1
           ;;
     esac
     ;;
  *)
     #echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2
     echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|status|restart|force-reload}" >&2
     exit 3
     ;;
esac

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