Hello Boud, once again, I do not succeed in reproducing this bug. I shall try again next week, after my travel.
Best regards, Georges. Boud Roukema a écrit : > salut, > > i'm not sure if this is related or independent - for the moment let's > assume it's > part of the same bug... > > > PROBLEM: It is very difficult in the wims documentation (of different > sorts!, except > possibly on the sympa mailing list archive which is probably not catalogued > by google > because of the antispam button (?)) to find out how the sys admin should > carry out > basic admin tasks. i have failed in 3.62-8. In 3.58, the following hack > worked for me: > > (1) in ~wims/log/wims.conf put > > manager_site=<MY_IP_NUMBER> > > (2) in public_html/themes/default/supervisor.phtml put > > <br><small> > !href module=adm/manage $N_manage > </small><br> > > somewhere inside the <BODY> ... </BODY> > > (3) log in as teacher (supervisor) of a class, and then click on the > management button. > > > In my present installation of 3.62-8, this hack no longer works, especially > since i can't get (3) to work for my old classes which i have copied > (including dot > files) into log/classes/ . Since i can imagine that some of the parameters > and > structures might have changed from 3.58 to 3.62-8, i thought it best to > first > try creating a new class. But i cannot create a new class. So this is a > circular > loop: i cannot log in as supervisor in order to get administrator access, > and i cannot get administrator access in order to (maybe) fix up what's > preventing the > creation of new classes and me becoming a (new) supervisor. > > > COMMENTS: > > The page http://wims.auto.u-psud.fr/wims/faq/fr/portal.html refers to > entering wims > as administrator and going to the "Configuration and maintenance" section - > but doesn't > say how to enter as administrator to start off with. > > The page http://wims.auto.u-psud.fr/wims/faq/fr/gestion.html refers to step > (1) of my hack quoted above and says that going to the home page is enough > to find a link > for "gestion du site en-ligne" but i can't see the link. The hack quoted > above > was inspired by the page gestion.html. > > BTW: i think today's classes will certainly be without wims - i want to be > sure that everything's stable and functioning before using the upgraded > version in practice. > > BTW(2): i think wims is great and powerful software. A weak point for > wider usage is that sysadmin requires quite a bit of time in > grepping/hacking for someone of intermediate gnu/linux experience - > which is probably a common problem of any package which is good at the > deep, core level but not (yet) subjected to installing by thousands or > hundreds of thousands of (e.g.) home sysadmins and the subsequent > evolutionary pressure on the software installation/management > user-friendliness: wims is not gimp or xmms. Moreover, since wims allows > (e.g.) university servers to be used by local school teachers, the latter > may concentrate on course creation and not local installation. Anyway, this > is getting offtopic from the bug report, sorry. > > amities > boud > > > > On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Boud Roukema wrote: > >> Package: wims >> Version: 3.62-8 >> Severity: important >> > > > -- Georges KHAZNADAR et Jocelyne FOURNIER 22 rue des mouettes, 59240 Dunkerque France. Téléphone +33 (0)3 28 29 17 70
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