Moodle

[wesleyw]

Is there anyway of stopping moodle polling directory sizes under the files option.

Wes

[Geoff]

No, but you can tell it where 'du' is and speed things up massively.

[wesleyw]

How? Also Geoff is it possible to stop pupils being able to delete files in the files section in courses or anywhere else for that matter? Using Mount Points, Samba and Symbolic Links I've cobbled together our shared area into moodle as it's main repository, I'm getting someone to write a better method into moodle however it means that because moodle has full access so to do the pupils?



Wes

[Geoff]

How?

On my 1.7 install it's under Admin -> Server -> Path to du. Which I have set to '/usr/bin/du' which is correct for Ubuntu.

Also Geoff is it possible to stop pupils being able to delete files in the files section in courses or anywhere else for that matter?

in moodle? configuring the roles should be sufficent.

[wesleyw]

DU is a package?

Wes

[Geoff]

zimbra@hydra:~$ whereis du
du: /usr/bin/du /usr/share/man/man1/du.1.gz

zimbra@hydra:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/du
coreutils: /usr/bin/du

zimbra@hydra:~$ apt-cache show coreutils
Package: coreutils
Essential: yes
Priority: required
Section: base
Installed-Size: 8228
Maintainer: Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 5.93-5ubuntu4
Replaces: textutils, shellutils, fileutils, stat, debianutils (<= 2.3.1), dpkg (<< 1.13.2)
Provides: textutils, shellutils, fileutils
Pre-Depends: libacl1 (>= 2.2.11-1), libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1), libselinux1 (>= 1.28)
Conflicts: stat, apt-move (<= 4.2.24-1)
Filename: pool/main/c/coreutils/coreutils_5.93-5ubuntu4_i386.deb
Size: 1315774
MD5sum: 4c54cd2f2063f4913c19800253a0a493
Description: The GNU core utilities
 This package contains the essential basic system utilities.
 .
 Specifically, this package includes:
 basename cat chgrp chmod chown chroot cksum comm cp csplit cut date dd df dir
 dircolors dirname du echo env expand expr factor false fmt fold groups head
 hostid id install join link ln logname ls md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod mv nice nl
 nohup od paste pathchk pinky pr printenv printf ptx pwd readlink rm rmdir
 sha1sum seq shred sleep sort split stat stty sum sync tac tail tee test touch
 tr true tsort tty uname unexpand uniq unlink users vdir wc who whoami yes
Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
Origin: Ubuntu

[wesleyw]

Cool thanks Geoff added this the moodle system runs like lightening now


Wes

[wesleyw]

Also has anyone managed to get E-Portfolio working on their Moodle installation as yet? If not what are you guys using?

Wes

[Geoff]

Is that a module?

[wesleyw]

Yeah it's just called the Portfolio Module?

Wes

[Geoff]

I'll stick it on our 1.8 test server and see what happens.

We've looked at Elgg for doing E-Portfolios in the past.

http://elgg.org/