From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 2 10:46:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FF5A16A4CE for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 10:46:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C73EC43D2D for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 10:46:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:46:38 -0600 Message-ID: <4044D61B.5080907@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 12:44:43 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rfa@msumain.edu.ph References: <1534.203.177.105.178.1078242796.squirrel@bayok.msumain.edu.ph> In-Reply-To: <1534.203.177.105.178.1078242796.squirrel@bayok.msumain.edu.ph> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Mar 2004 18:46:50.0296 (UTC) FILETIME=[B9053380:01C40086] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: anyone tried moodle? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 18:46:43 -0000 rfa@msumain.edu.ph wrote: >i was thinking about setting up an online learning environment for some >students here and remembered moodle. > >http://www.moodle.org > >i did a #make search name=moodle on my ports and couldn't find anything. >now, has anyone tried this? im not familiar enough with freebsd and/or >the ports to know whether it is safe to install this on my system so i >just wanna ask around first... > > > Well, to answer your subject: no, haven't tried it. I used to be a teacher, though...I'll wish you luck. A brief browse of the url you provided yields this information: Moodle is a web-based application, written with PHP and a database backend (MySql, PostGreSQL). As for security, it's not *real* likely that these guys have done anything on purpose to threaten your security. A harder issue would be whether or not the PHP scripts have been written securely, and that's a subject for another forum. I like PHPBuilder.com for PHP issues. I would be sure and check whether or not they are using a lot of system-type calls (shell_exec(), system(), passthru(), etc.) or whether the application is more self-contained. Also, whether or not the PHP engine must be run without safe_mode might be something to think about. If you can run a webserver with PHP and a database, you will be able to use Moodle. It hasn't been ported to FreeBSD, probably, because of one of the following (which are all speculations....) : a. it's new? Can't tell... b. Nobody wanted to port it (seems likely ... need a hobby?) ;-) c. It doesn't really *need* to be ported, as it's just a set of web server scripts. d. Kris Kennaway doesn't want another blasted port/maintainer to deal with... **Joking, joking!!! We luv Kris and the whole FBSD team!!!! ;-) ** >another thing, they had instructions for getting it via CVS: > >QUOTE >>From a Unix computer >To connect and login for the first time to the CVS server, you can use >this command: > >cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/moodle login > >There is no password - when asked for one, just hit Enter. > >To checkout (download) the entire Moodle code for the first time, use this >command: > >cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/moodle co moodle >ENDQUOTE > >anyway i tried this but it went like: > >su-2.05b# cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/moodle login >Logging in to :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:2401/cvsroot/moodle >CVS password: >cvs [login aborted]: reading from server: Connection reset by peer > >What does that mean? Any ideas on how to fix this? Although i could just >upload the tar file from my windows box, i am curious about this. > >Yours, >Rommel > > > > > Hmm, anonymous CVS asking for a pw? I do know that the sourceforge *developer* cvs system has been having problems with LDAP not adding passwords for developers properly. A workaround for that is to simply re-add your password using their interface. But, I don't think that's going to help in your case. I'm guessing that it's a problem on their end, or something in your environment asking their server for a login prompt. I'm not that good with CVS, so I probably can't help you there. However, I can say that it worked for me just a moment ago.... Are you not running a GUI on FreeBSD? You can grab the tarball from a browser, or note the URL and grab it from the CLI with fetch(1) or wget(1) or the like. I'm doubting that a PHP project would take very long to get even on a slow modem. (hmm, except the pix...and the compatibility programs.... this is looking rather interesting.) OK, the new release BETA is 2X the size of the older one... hmm, I'd not cvs this one probably; although I guess the good news would be that you could keep up easily once you'd done it once. I'll wish you good luck ... and like I said, checkout PHPBuilder.com; it's a nice community there, as well, much like FreeBSD, only younger (maybe) and they don't all type as well... :-D I've gone on long enough. HAND! HTH, Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.