Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (60 mails)

[Lars Vogdt <lrupp@xxxxxxx>]

HI Mike

On Montag 14 Juli 2008 00:40:40 mike drawneek wrote:
> A short question, is there any HOWTOs or other documents relating to
> the upkeep and maintenance of rooms of computers running OpenSuse?
>
> I have seen Zenworks 7, this seems to do what I want but only runs on
> SLED, does any body know of any oos that will do the job?

Depending on your needs....

With ZenWorks 7 and eDirectory for user management, you've strange 
business applications which are designed for this job. You can get a 90 
day evaluation if you like to test it. 
Just start with: 
http://www.novell.com/de-de/industries/education/
for more details.


If you just want your clients to get automatic updates, there's also no 
problem. Just mirror the update tree and point your clients to this 
update path.

If you like, you can create simple bash-scripts which can be executed 
during boot, during login or logout - or during shutdown. For example:
/etc/profile.local can contain:
if [ -e /home/profile/linux/$HOST ]
then
 . /home/profile/linux/$HOST
fi
if [ -e /home/profile/linux/$USER ]
then
 . /home/profile/linux/$USER
fi

^^^ so if /home is comming via NFS from the main server, you just have 
to place any script you like to execute per host or per user in 
the  /home/profile/linux/ directory on the server - every client will 
execute it once a user logs in.

Same for boot or shutdown scripts. Just use /etc/init.d/skeleton as 
template and adapt it to your needs. 

With kind regards,
Lars


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