Hi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Taylor" <ptaylor@uklinux.net> To: <john@rygannon.com> Cc: "SuSE for Schools" <suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com> Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 8:27 PM Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] kernel bogie
On Thursday 27 Nov 2003 7:58 pm, you wrote:
Why would you want to compile a FTP server into the kernel. I have never heard of anybody doing that before. Me neither and I am only passing on what was asked of me. I have some reasonable experience of Linux as I have been using it for 6 years, but I would not call myself an expert.
I came to Linux from UNIX so it wasn't much of a transition. But this was in the early days of Linux, when you had to download the whole lot useing your "Ultra fast" 9600kbit modem and then copy each chunk onto a montain of 3.5" floppies. If you didn't have the correct hardware you had no chance of installing it. My original 386 box is still alive and well but is now collecting dust in the loft
The guys in Tech support have used the linux kernel and lilo for 3-4 years as part of Novell but know little of Linux.
I think (from what they have said to me) they would like to have a custom kernel that has tftp capabilities so that when they go to remote schools to do the never ending M$ updates, they can boot the linux kernel and download a new partition of changes. The linux kernel is unaffected and
That's obvious. Anyway I have written to a kernel hacker friend of mine (Tim Riker) and asked him for an opinion, since my programming experience is limited to userland apps. The closest I have come to hacking the Linux kernel was when I modified pthreads to work properly with MySQL. Up to September 2001 I was a member of the MySQL core development team. I have only ever once looked at Novel Netware. That once was enough for me. Back to the subject. You can't integate a userland app into the kernel, so I am mystifed by what your Tech support guys have been telling you they
can then ghost the machine and pump it out to all the others on site usig Zend.
Zend? We are talking about the same Zend which is behind PHP. Zend is just a web application server so what has this got to do with the price of kippers :) I think somebody is taking the Michael
As I said earlier, I hope this is a temprorary measure as I will eliminate M$ from the school as soon as I can.
There is a multitude of FTP servers available for Linux. proFTP is the easiest the setup. If you can set up Apache you can set up proFTP, since the config files are almost identical. pureFTP is the most secure, so the choice is yours
Regards John
Regards John
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