February 2003 - openSUSE Edu - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Email Filter
by Chris Puttick 25 Feb '03

25 Feb '03

http://spamassassin.taint.org/ should do the trick - not sure about the storing of mail though, although it whouls be configurable for that. Chris -----Original Message----- From: Administrator To: 'suse-linux-uk-schools(a)suse.com' Sent: 2/25/03 10:08 AM Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Email Filter Quick question, does anyone use any Linux software to filter their email? We get quite a lot of email passed through, over 1000 a hour, and it would be nice to use something fairly simple to work between our SMTP feed and Exchange (5.5) Server, preferably (I know it will take a LOT of space) that can store every email passed through, for say a week? Thanks, Dug Stokes Senior Webmaster Gilberd IS Department E: dug(a)gilberd.com W: www.gilberd.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-help(a)suse.com

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cron job with ftp
by Matt Johnson 24 Feb '03

24 Feb '03

Hi folks, I've written a script to upload some static html pages to an ftp server. I've used .netrc for the connection settings. It all works well when I run the script. Now, I've put that script in /etc/cron.daily and on the RedHat system I've got, that should run at 4am. But it doesn't work. The logs show that it fails to login to the remote FTP system when the job is run by cron. To summarise... The script works if I now sit here and type: /etc/cron.daily/webupdate It doesn't work if I change the system time to 4am and watch it try! Fails to login. I've checked the permissions on the script in /etc/cron.daily are the same as the others in that directory. Any pointers please? Thanks in advance -- Matt Johnson __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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GNVQ ICT
by Colin McQueen 18 Feb '03

18 Feb '03

The GNVQ Full Version will continue at least until 2004 entry i.e. examined in 2006 After that it may or may not continue. The part one version is the one which is stopping this June AFAIAA -- Colin McQueen John 3:16

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Telnet
by Alan Davies 17 Feb '03

17 Feb '03

I have eventually managed to get the telnet demon to run on suse8.0 (I think possibly one of the updates did this - although I didn't notice at the time) However, as soon as I have entered the username and password it simply closes the connection (to a remote client). Is there an allow/disallow file somewhere I should be looking for. -- Alan Davies Head of Computing Birkenhead School

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gnvq TT et al
by ian 16 Feb '03

16 Feb '03

> On Tuesday 11 February 2003 9:04 am, Chris Puttick wrote: > > Call me silly, but howabout he gets together with a few other schools (and > > Ian!) to create an Star/OOo equivalent. If he adds up the costs of MS > > Windows, Office and Publisher plus the outrageous charge by Thomas Telford > > (that created by public money should remain public!), > Agreed! This annoyed me every bit as much as the MS bit! > Count me in. We already have a start with www.theINGOTs.org. I have just mailed EAZs to offer them the certification for the Bronze Ingot as sponsorship. This will pull £3 into the zone for each pupil certificated. I have a number of specialist schools who have built INGOT certification into their development plans and I am currently talking to Anglia Polytec Uni about jointly training teacher assessors. If I can get say 100,000 people certificated and we get sufficient credibility, many in the Zone schools will carry on with it and I will have an income stream that can be used for free software development and further development of things like GNVQ support materials. This is going to take some time but I really need as many people taking up INGOTs as possible as soon as possible. The Bronze is easy, its effectively just accrediting skills that good primary schools will be doing anyway and its available to all the age and ability range. At the moment, getting the GNVQ assignments together is something I haven't time to do but I should think that there are plenty of schools out there with the materials. We just need to find them and them put the materials together with instructions on the web site and make it free. I reckon there is sufficient income from Teacher training and associated merchandising for us to operate this commercially but to make all the materials fee and put the certification revenues into free software. Unfortunately I have to do the day job too. Phil, why are they going down the GNVQ route? The government will be phasing out GNVQs for schools replacing it with VGCSE. If they simply want all kids certificated in ICT, get them to do theINGOTs. It will be much less expensive and much less hassle for teachers and lets face it how many kids got employed on the basis of a GNVQ Int in IT? Regards, -- Ian

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Sheflug - March Meetings
by Richard Ibbotson 13 Feb '03

13 Feb '03

Hi For those of you who have an interest in business or science or education .... Sheffield Linux Users Group (ShefLUG) Tuesday 4th of March 2003 ShefLUG Venue: Sheffield Wednesday Football ground for more info have a look at.. http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar.html You will need to book online for this if you wish to attend. To do that go to... http://www.clubukonline.co.uk/local-events/linux/briefing.htm There is plenty of room for parking. If you aren't coming over by car then you might like to know that you can get to Hillsborough on the local tram.. http://www.supertram.com/ On the 12th of March we will be having a special one off event which will take place at Sheffield Hallam University, Adsetts Centre, room 6620. As advertised in the Sheffield Gazette. Part of National Science Week. A Life in Space Prof Pat Stakem will describe his lifes work on automated unmanned space platforms and space exploration. A complete history of computing in space. Of particular interest is his work on Flight Linux. You can view more about this at... http://flightlinux.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Tickets are available from Pat Brunskill at Sheffield Hallam University. They are free. First come first served basis. To get in touch with Pat go to.. Mrs Pat Brunskill Sheffield Hallam University Centre for Science Education Norfolk Building, Floor 2 City Campus Sheffield S1 1WB <p.brunskill(a)shu.ac.uk> best to phone her .. 0114 225 4888 It took two years to get him to come along and give a lecture. Please don't miss out on this one. Well worth a trip to SHU and Sheffield. See also.... http://www.sheflug.co.uk/meeting.html -- Thanks Richard Sheffield Linux User's Group - http://www.sheflug.co.uk/ GNU the choice of a complete generation.

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[suse-linux-uk-schools] AutoYast missing software and the like Su SE 8.1
by Old, Julian [IES] 13 Feb '03

13 Feb '03

Good people, I need to produce an iso image of a small system which should fit on one disk Having built the system and copied the distro to a suitable place on the hard disk, I tried autoyast -> clone system this made a nice clone.xml which seems to correspond to what I need "create iso image" was then true to it's word and I burned this image Now when I try to install from this new cd all is fine until "Error while configuring software selections Please try again" The CD certainly has a pile of rpms on it but perhaps not the base ones Attempting a manual installation with same cd shows (after evaluating package selection) No base selection available 'error no proposal' So I had a look at creating a profile manually to create the .xml file As you will know there is a tree on the left with the usual + signs indicating subtrees there are no subtrees for the sections "software" and "misc" The manual clearly shows these as having subtrees Perhaps this is related to my initial problem. Any help gratefully received Julian Old

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RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Dual network cards
by Chris Puttick 12 Feb '03

12 Feb '03

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-uk-schools/ But Pro 8.1 and SLES 8 are essentially the same, and both will happily support dual (or more) network cards and the Pro 100S (which is the Pro100+). What problem is he getting? -----Original Message----- From: Jim Bews To: suse-linux-uk-schools(a)suse.com Sent: 2/12/03 11:21 AM Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Dual network cards Is this list archived somewhere? I can't see it on the www.suse.com site. Did I notice a reference to the use of dual network cards on this list within the last few days. Sticks in my mind that someone referred to that working OK on Suse pro 8.1. That's what I thought one of my colleagues was using (so I ignored the message), but it turns out he has gone to the Enterprise Server 8 so as to get support for all his Raid stuff, etc. Help - I suggested he buy an Intel Pro 100S dual port card in the belief that it would work, and now my name's mud. Cheers. Jim Bews - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Jim Bews, Computing Officer, School of Chemistry, Purdie Building, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9ST Tel: 01334-463830 Email: j.r.bews(a)st-andrews.ac.uk Fax: 01334-463808 WWW: http://chemistry.st-andrews.ac.uk/staff/jrb/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-help(a)suse.com

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Dual network cards
by Jim Bews 12 Feb '03

12 Feb '03

Is this list archived somewhere? I can't see it on the www.suse.com site. Did I notice a reference to the use of dual network cards on this list within the last few days. Sticks in my mind that someone referred to that working OK on Suse pro 8.1. That's what I thought one of my colleagues was using (so I ignored the message), but it turns out he has gone to the Enterprise Server 8 so as to get support for all his Raid stuff, etc. Help - I suggested he buy an Intel Pro 100S dual port card in the belief that it would work, and now my name's mud. Cheers. Jim Bews - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Jim Bews, Computing Officer, School of Chemistry, Purdie Building, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9ST Tel: 01334-463830 Email: j.r.bews(a)st-andrews.ac.uk Fax: 01334-463808 WWW: http://chemistry.st-andrews.ac.uk/staff/jrb/

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Squid blocking per room?/Per machine (wildcard)?
by Administrator 11 Feb '03

11 Feb '03

Couldn't get it to work with either: acl room30 ident cartman or acl room30b srcdomain cartman Including using the -I term... Have you any other ideas??! All I want to do is let squid block by pc name?!? Dug Stokes Senior Webmaster Gilberd IS Department E: dug(a)gilberd.com W: www.gilberd.com -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Adam [mailto:thomas_adam16@yahoo.com] Sent: 10 February 2003 13:45 To: Dug Stokes Subject: RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Squid blocking per room?/Per machine (wildcard)? --- Dug Stokes <dst(a)gilberd.essex.sch.uk> wrote: > Not using SquidGuard, used to though. I got fed up > with it... Prefer the > nakedness of my ickle Squiddy. Fair enough.... > So I'm guessing it wouldn't just be something like; > > acl room30 ident 30-pc23 > http_access deny room30 > > Or am I close?? :o) I think that'll do it :-) give it a go and remember to do: squid -k reconfigure afterwards :-) Do let me know how you get on.... Hmm, my computer degree is boring.. :-) -- Thomas Adam > Thanks again for all your help!! > > Dug Stokes > Senior Webmaster > Gilberd IS Department > E: dug(a)gilberd.com > W: www.gilberd.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Adam [mailto:thomas_adam16@yahoo.com] > Sent: 10 February 2003 12:51 > To: Dug Stokes > Subject: RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Squid blocking > per room?/Per machine > (wildcard)? > > > Dug, > > --- Dug Stokes <dst(a)gilberd.essex.sch.uk> wrote: > > What acl would that be?? :o( > > > > Sorry to sound dense... Been a long weekend!! > > > > Good luck with the SQL, and thx for ur help! > > You're not being dense. The ACL in question would be > one that you create, and then add a reference to it > within your "/etc/squid.conf" file. > > I don't suppose you're running "squidGuard" as well, > are you? > > I'm not worried about SQL, it's easy. I only wish we > were using Postgresql as opposed to Oracle :-( > Nevermind.... > > -- Thomas Adam > > > Dug Stokes > > Senior Webmaster > > Gilberd IS Department > > E: dug(a)gilberd.com > > W: www.gilberd.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Thomas Adam [mailto:thomas_adam16@yahoo.com] > > Sent: 10 February 2003 12:21 > > To: Administrator; > 'suse-linux-uk-schools(a)suse.com' > > Subject: RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Squid > blocking > > per room?/Per machine > > (wildcard)? > > > > > > If you have indetd running then it should be easy. > > > > What I'd be inclined to do, is to have an ACL > > whereby > > it contains all the names of the computers > > (workstation FQH's) contained in each room. > > > > Have that ACL authenticated to usually allow > access, > > except if you change the "/etc/squid.conf" file to > > disallow access to that room. > > > > Hmm, I'm having fun in my SQL tutorial at the > > moment, > > and am getting no work done, he he....good old > Uni. > > > > -- Thomas Adam > > > > --- Administrator > > <Administrator(a)gilberd.essex.sch.uk> wrote: > IP's > > are > > DHCP, so that's kinda random. The name > > > (netbios?) is unique though, > > > IdentD service also running too, if that's any > > help. > > > :S > > > > > > How can I block by pc name? > > > > > > > > > Dug Stokes > > > Senior Webmaster > > > Gilberd IS Department > > > E: dug(a)gilberd.com > > > W: www.gilberd.com > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Thomas Adam > [mailto:thomas_adam16@yahoo.com] > > > Sent: 10 February 2003 11:55 > > > To: Administrator; > > 'suse-linux-uk-schools(a)suse.com' > > > Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Squid > > blocking > > > per room?/Per machine > > > (wildcard)? > > > > > > > > > Yes, I have some.... > > > > > > Squid works its filtering not only on ACL's but > on IP/subnets too. > > > > > > Assuming that the IP addresses of your machines > in > > > the > > > specific room have a commonality about them then > > it > > > should be easy enough for you to block an entire > > > room. > > > > > > HTH, > > > > > > -- Thomas Adam > > > > > > --- Administrator > > > <Administrator(a)gilberd.essex.sch.uk> wrote: > Is > > > there > > > any easy way anyone can see of letting > > > > Squid block internet access > > > > to an entire room of kids? > > > > > > > > At the moment, the ACL's block some users and > > some websites, but > > > > sometimes, for obvious reasons a teacher wants > > us to block, > > > > say, Room 30 from having > > > > internet access. > > > > > > > > Each machine is Win2k, and is named '30-pcxx' > > > where > > > > xx is a number to > > > > uniquely id the machine. > > > > > > > > I've written a vb program before that runs > > before > > > > IE, but it isn't very > > > > successful!! > > > > > > > > Any ideas?? Pur-lease?! > > > > > > > > Dug Stokes > > > > Senior Webmaster > > > > Gilberd IS Department > > > > E: dug(a)gilberd.com > > > > W: www.gilberd.com > > > > > > > > -- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > suse-linux-uk-schools-unsubscribe(a)suse.com > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > > > suse-linux-uk-schools-help(a)suse.com > > > > > > > > > > ===== > > > Thomas Adam > > > > > > "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- > > www.linuxgazette.com > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Everything you'll ever need on one web page > > > from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts > > http://uk.my.yahoo.com > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > suse-linux-uk-schools-unsubscribe(a)suse.com > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > > suse-linux-uk-schools-help(a)suse.com > > > > > > > ===== > > Thomas Adam > > > > "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- > www.linuxgazette.com > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Everything you'll ever need on one web page > === message truncated === ===== Thomas Adam "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- www.linuxgazette.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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