March 2005 - openSUSE Edu - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Working in Teacherland - opportunities please? (long)
by Thomas Adam 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

--- linuxgirlie <linuxgirlie(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I use Karoshi (www.karoshi.org.uk), So I would only have to install > basic Mandrake and then Karoshi on top. My record is 25 minutes. So > thats 25*6 = 150minutes. No, that's 25*6 = 150 for a bast-case scenario. There could be all kinds of mitigating factors that could push that back to a day, for one server. It's happened to me all the time. Mostly hardware-related, I should add. > Then I can either bring back all the users from backup....or worse > case I would have to bulk user create. You shouldn't have to do the latter -- your backups should be sufficient such that you can restore the whole thing en masse. > As this is from a Comma > Seperated File, I would load it up in our bulk user creator and it > would take about 5 minutes (guessimate) per year. Yeck. I suppose you could do it that way -- there are perhaps more liberal ways of doing things. /etc/passwd is your friend here, though. > Basically Karoshi sets up the whole system with everything in place, > all I have to do is bring back the users and thier work :) It's a nice idea, but also your single-point of failure if that fails to work. I hope you know what to do, should it not run, for whatever reason. :P > Our print server went down the other day, it took me 30 minutes to get > it up running and working again, including bringing back all print > quenes etc. and it first print out. I bet that was CUPS... -- Thomas Adam "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net "<shrug> We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience will probably kill you. :)" -- Benjamin A. Okopnik (Linux Gazette Technical Editor) Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] RE: Reference schools in SW & config help please?
by Thomas Adam 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

--- linuxgirlie <linuxgirlie(a)gmail.com> wrote: > *bows head in shame of self promotion......* You'll be doing that twice, for the duplicate e-mail we all got? :) -- Thomas Adam Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Reference schools in SW & config help please?
by Thomas Adam 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

HTML E-mail. Beautiful. :| Any chance you can get your (braindead) e-mail client to also wrap at a decent line size (>=74 <=78)? --- Paul Graydon <graydpau(a)hhc.ac.uk> wrote: > If you're running Linux workstations you can connect using either SSH or > Telnet and get If you're running Linux workstations, using SSH precludes the fact that the administrator realises that telnet is a major security risk. So he/she would have disabled its use. It should be SSH or nothing, if you care about your data. > it to pass the remote server information to your workstations X windows > gui, giving you Note that there is no such thing as "X Windows". It's called "X Windowing System", or "X11", or "X", but never "X Windows". > full control over the server, as if you were sitting at the machine. > I've never done this > myself, I'll confess, but I do know lots of people regularly do this and > that its reportedly > quite easy to do. It is "easy" to do. The process is called "X11-forwarding" and allows programs on the remote machine *appear* to run locally on the machine that initiated the ssh connection [1]. On the server (that will hence be running sshd) you can edit the file: /etc/ssh/sshd_config And in that file, you will see: X11Forwarding no Chaging the above to "yes", and restarting the sshd will mean that from your workstation, you can then do: ssh -X workstation and can then run X11-commands. Note the "-X" flag to ssh, that tells it to use X11-forwarding. > Two product names that spring to mind are Webmin and Linuxconf, although > again I > have no personal experience of using them. Then it is just as well I can say something about the Linuxconf: DON'T. -- Thomas Adam [1] It's not as simple as this. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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MS sponsor deal and the Register
by Ian Lynch 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/11/ms_specialist_schools_deal/ -- Ian Lynch <ian.lynch(a)zmsl.com> ZMS Ltd

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Sophos
by Miles Berry 02 Mar '05

02 Mar '05

We have a subscription to Sophos antivirus for our Windows 98 workstations and the SuSE 9.1 Linux server. So far, the workstations do on access protection using intercheck, the server uses amavisd-new to check incoming and outgoing emails for spam and virii, the server downloads new virus definitions twice a day and checks for viruses on the whole filesystem overnight. I came across a link to samba-vscan which appears to run server based on access checking of samba shares, and in fact is already installed on our server (probably alongside Samba when I set it up). Sounds useful, belt and braces etc. To get samba-vscan working with the Sophos library and definitions, it apparently needs to have the sophie daemon running. Sophie isn't a Suse package so I've dowloaded the source, but can't get past the configure script, which says it cant find the savilib library, although the library is, in fact, where sophie configure is looking for it. Anyone else any experience with sophos under linux, or more importantly sophie under suse 9.1? Any suggestions folks? I'm also interested in squid-vscan which does a similar thing with webcontent via the cache. Anyone any experience with this? -- Miles Berry Deputy Head St Ives School Haslemere www.stiveshaslemere.com

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RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Cache box configuration
by Grainge, Derek 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

-----Original Message----- From: Christopher Dawkins [mailto:cchd@felsted.essex.sch.uk] Sent: 01 March 2005 19:12 To: suse-linux-uk-schools(a)suse.com Cc: Rob Keeling Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Cache box configuration > I am happy with the way squid is performing, though it would be nice to > add the facility to pre-load web sites into the cache. I suspect that pre-loading involves a degree of preparation which will stretch many staff :-) and that therefore it's of little practical advantage. And what percentage of web pages are dynamic rather than static nowadays? Derek -- ******************************************************************************** All mail sent and received may be examined to prevent transmission of unacceptable material. Wellington College does not accept responsibility for email contents. Problems to postmaster(a)wellington-college.berks.sch.uk. Website: http://www.wellington-college.berks.sch.uk ********************************************************************************

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Karoshi 4.rc4
by linuxgirlie 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

Just a quick note for those interested that we now have version 4.rc4 out and a new website! At the moment, though we are adding documentation and gui (most important tasks at this time) we would like to hear from anyone who has any ideas of what extras we could put in. I have already had suggested Video Conferencing servers (I suppose for the more cutting edge of us) and a cache box for internet. (something lea's/rm are pushing). More ideas would be great! Thanks, Jo -- Spread FireFox: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=user/register&r=32751 Get FireFox: http://www.getfirefox.com OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org Mandrake: http://www.mandrakelinux.com Karoshi: http://www.karoshi.org.uk

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