August 2000 - openSUSE Edu - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SuSE 7
by Edgehill E-Mail Service 22 Aug '00

22 Aug '00

Hi, Just wondering when SuSE 7 will be available, and what pricing? Also looking forward to seeing the latest specs. Regards, Paul -------------------------------------------------------------- Legal Advisory: Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000. --------------------------------------------- You are warned that all electronic communications are subject to interception for regulatory, quality control and crime detection purposes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edgehill IT Department Email Service. Please check sender's address from body of Message for return address. Find us at: www.edgecoll.clara.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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shutdown
by Roy Morden 18 Aug '00

18 Aug '00

6.4 using KDe I have installed linux and star office 6 times now, each time i try and shut down the machine it dies on me.( logout of kde then select shutdown and shutdown) I have logged on as root this makes no difference I have changed shutdown to "all" this again makes no difference. After selecting shutdown i get a screen which has either two or four of the suse logo's (gecko or whatever it's called) these are only just recogniseable as the screen is full of colour but is distorted to the point where the logo is the only visible thing. This screen stays there permanently(left it overnight once) or if a key is depressed it will change to a screen full of squares all different colours. When installing the os doesn't pick up my monitor (aoc spectrum 4vlr) or graphics card (s3 virge pci) so thes have to be set up manually or i'm stuck with 640x480. Once that is done everything works fine, except shutting down. The user guide says that you must be logged on as root to shut down, but if you have to logoff to get to the shutdown screen how can you be logged on as root? As you may have gathered i'm new to linux so if you can help,try and keep it to words of one syllable so i can understand. (feeling pretty dumb at the moment). btw this is not a live system, this on my home machine so no NIC, there is a modem but that isn't recognised and i didn't bother to set it up. Roy Morden Network Manager Baines School Poulton-le-fylde roymorden(a)mail.com

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Get together
by Derek Harding 14 Aug '00

14 Aug '00

Hi folks, In broad, the itinery for Thursday I hope will be as follows: 1000-1030 arrive and tea/coffee etc. 1030 Welcome 1035-1230 Becta, the "Powys" build, suitable hardware (deals) and overview of Webmin. (Malcolm) 1230-1400 Break 1400-1425 VMWare, demo and discussion (John Edwards) 1430-1455 SuSE, update and Educational support plans (Roger) 1500-1600 LinuxIT - listening to educational needs; general discussion before departure. (LinuxIT rep and us) Obviously there will be short breaks between sessions and there will be opportunities to chat and look at areas of particular interest. I hope to provide machines running Corel, Applix and Star Offices (Any help there Roger? I have an old version of Applix.) Now I need to have an idea of who will be coming so that I can get the right quantity of milk, etc. The school postcode is CR6 9YB, which will allow you to find a map on the web. For arrivals at East Croydon BR station, the 403 bus leaves Fairfield Halls (close to the station) to "Hamsey Green" and Tithe Pit Shaw Lane is nearly opposite the bus stop. From Warlingham Station it is about 20 mins walk ALL UPHILL! The front and back gates will be open - front is best for cars. The school is unmissable and has the school flag flying. I will put out signs on the day, too, when I know which rooms we will actually be using! I shall be at school from much earlier than 1000 (about 0730 I expect) so don't worry if you get in early. -- Best wishes, Derek Harding derek(a)lagham.zetnet.co.uk hardingd(a)warlingham.surrey.sch.uk

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Administration tasks using Samba
by Colin Davies 13 Aug '00

13 Aug '00

Hi. I'm new to the list so forgive me if the following topics have been covered. We use Suse for our school server software with W95/98 as the client software. We log on as if it were an NT server using Samba and use Webmin to carry out admin tasks. Apache, Squid and WWWoffle are used to connect to the outside world and so far only a couple of problems which I would appreciate some help/ advice : Printing - I am using a linux box as a printserver but could do with some way of controlling/deleting multiple print requests and other printing problems. You know what its like, a pupil presses print, waits 5 millisecs and then repeats the procedure until the bell goes. In old money there was a DOS utility which controlled print queues for Novell printservers. Is there an equivalent in Linux ? Password -there is a facility in Webmin to make passwords expire. It speaks of warning days and expiry days etc but I can't get it to work. Is there a utility which I can put on which will force everyone to change their password as they log on (from within Windows?) without giving them access to Webmin (security problem there ) Colin Davies Meadows School Chesterfield

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To lie or not to lie
by adrian.wells 09 Aug '00

09 Aug '00

Hi all, Thought this might amuse, I was installing an NT (calm down) Server yesterday, When I got around to installing the option pack 4, It told me that it did not recognize the OS! :-) Going to the NT Website to find a solution, I saw "the Truth about LINUX" which I had a quick look at - As a newbie I was able to identify quite a few non-truths, is there an 'official' rebuttal to this document? It's quite interesting to search for 'LINUX' at the NT site. e.g. http://www.microsoft.com/NTServer/nts/news/msnw/nt4vLinux.asp By the way, I didn't find the reason for the above error, and yet NT is such a well documented/supported OS! :-) Kind Regards Adrian Wells _______________________________________ Systems Manager Sidcot School Oakridge Lane, Winscombe, Somerset BS25 1PD. Please reply to adrian.wells(a)sidcot.org.uk admin(a)sidcot.org.uk for general enquiries

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Re: LINUX proxy server
by adrian.wells 04 Aug '00

04 Aug '00

>Hi Adrian > >I saw your email about using LINUX as a proxy server. Have you actually done this. If so how did it >perform, is it difficult to install onto a server etc. > >George Donovan Not yet George, I am in the middle of upgrading (?) our Novell 3.12 Server [apart from (water in the keyboard - don't ask!) the other day, the last down was in July last year] to NT4, without taking admin off line (well okay 3.5 hrs on Monday) - So I'm a little preoccupied! :-) I have setup a server/Internet proxy at home, but was not very impressed (SAMBA is okay, SQUID doesn't like the hardware much), but I am using a dialup to Freeserve at 14400 and a P133 server with 52MB & 2x 2G IDE HDD - all a bit cobbled. so hardly state of the art. I attempted to install a mail server using the same setup but haven't get it working yet, as my boy keeps reminding me. :-( At school I hope to have a PIII 600, 256M of ram and a 20+G HDD and a 128K ISDN, so it should run a little quicker! :-) I'll let you know if/when I get the money. Kind regards Adrian

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Get together date
by Derek Harding 02 Aug '00

02 Aug '00

Hi folks, I haven't yet managed to sort out the "programme" but the best date would seem to be 17th August. I hope to have a display from BECTA, demo/promotion from Applix and, I hope, VMWare and Corel. Roger, do you have any Corel/VMWare contacts? Can SuSE make copies of the version 6 glibc available (needed for Corel Office 2000) to save folk having to download it? Any other goodies? I'll draft out the topics Monday and, of course, I'll need volunteers to deliver the workshop information. Do people want to bring their own boxes to build the software in the presence of so much gathered wisdom? If so, let me know. -- Best wishes, Derek Harding derek(a)lagham.zetnet.co.uk

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Re: Fw:
by Simon Rainey 01 Aug '00

01 Aug '00

Dear All, To clear up the speculation concerning RM and Linux: - The RM Internet business (IFL) has run Linux since day one, i.e. over 5 years. - All the core services run under Linux with the exception of RM EasyMail and virtual web servers where users wish to use FrontPage extensions, which for commercial reasons run under NT. SMTP: Sendmail and Exim POP3: Qpopper HTTP: Apache FTP: wu-ftpd NNTP: INN DNS: BIND SQL: PostgreSQL and MySQL NTP: xntpd filtered web access: Squid - The server owl.rmplc.co.uk runs some majordomo mailing lists and a few virtual web servers. It is open for SMTP, HTTP, FTP and telnet access. It has been in service for some time (Pentium 133) and we have never felt the need to upgrade the kernel from 2.0.33. If it ain't broke don't fix it. - We never bothered to change the default web site on owl from the Apache intro page. It's no big deal. The virtual web servers use host headers to index the correct document root. - Owl is the only server on the IFL network that is open to telnet. It is required by a small number of developers who have a virtual web server on the machine and need more than FTP access. They are too mobile for us to restrict access using lists based on client IP address. Regular checks are made to ensure that owl has not been compromised and firewalls are in place to prevent it from being used to attack other hosts in the event that it is. Regards, Simon. ------------------------------------------------------------- Simon Rainey E-mail: srainey(a)rmplc.net Principal Internet Consultant RM IFL Engineering Internet for Learning, Research Machines plc, New Mill House, 183 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 4SE, England.

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Case Studies
by Malcolm 01 Aug '00

01 Aug '00

hi all due to some increased interested in things Open Source by the DfEE over the last couple of weeks i find myself in the situation of requiring some evidence, ie Case Studies on the use of Open Source/Linux in schools/colleges etc, i need to probably make some visits over the next few weeks (ie during holidays), but write ups of your site config's however dirty would be useful. I would wish to include them in a possible report to DfEE, but also on the Open Source for Educaiton web site (more on that later today i hope). i am esp in interested in : 1. Server Configurations, esp those with Internet services, email, squid etc 2. Workstation Configurations 3. Thin Client (seen some mention of X terminals i think on this list) please drop me a line asap so we can arrange something. thanks Malcolm ------------------------------- Dr Malcolm Herbert Head of Technology R&D, Becta 02476 847126 Mob: 07801 612438 -------------------------------

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