January 2001 - openSUSE Edu - openSUSE Mailing Lists

fastest printer sharing?
by James H. Carter & Cybèle de Jong 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

Best way to share a printer on a SAMBA network of Win98 machines????? 1. Attached to an old 486 (or whatever) running as a dedicated Linux box 2. Shared from one of the networked Win98 machines 3. Any other ideas? James Carter

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SUSE 7.1
by Azrael Angel Of Death 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

Hey, just spotted http://www.suse.com/us/suse/news/PressReleases/SuSE_Linux_7_1.html all about SUSE 7.1 coming out in Feb. 'SuSE Linux 7.1 Ships with Kernel 2.4 on February 12' Was wondering about the implications of updating current SUSE 7 servers to SUSE 7.1 Richard, with kernel 2.4 this'll have the replacement for ipchains in it, won't it? What's your advice on firewalling? Stick with 7 and ipchains, or wait for 7.1 and kernel 2.4's replacement for ipchains (name of which I can't recall off top of head). --Azrael _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Access web pages via ISDN router
by dhamilton 26 Jan '01

26 Jan '01

I'm a newbie at this so apologies for the simple question. I've installed Suse Linux 6.4 on a RM Connect station with LILO on a floppy so I can dual boot the station. I can see the NT server ok from within Linux so the network card is set up fine. What I want to be able to do is access the web via our router. There is no proxy server on site here - we dial in to RM's proxy for web access on the Connect network. Is it Netscape that needs to be set up to do this or are there other settings necessary within Linux or both. If so, what are they? Many thanks Des Hamilton

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SUSE 7.1
by Grainge, Derek 26 Jan '01

26 Jan '01

Are the changes from version 7 to 7.1 confined largely to the kernel and RPM - or have most applications been re-compiled due to the change in library? I am wondering how easily one can upgrade from 7 (which I bought two weeks ago...) to 7.1 by patching. -- ******************************************************************************** All mail sent and received may be examined to prevent transmission of inappropriate attachments and certain obscenities. Wellington College does not accept responsibility for email contents. Problems to postmaster(a)wellington-college.berks.sch.uk. ********************************************************************************

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Installing LINUX on SCSI
by adrian.wells 26 Jan '01

26 Jan '01

All installations that I have completed so far have been on std IDE boxes, with few if any probs (apart from Graphics and NIC). I have tried to install 6.3 6.4 & 7 of LINUX on a P166 80M ram 2x 8GB SCSI HDD 2x 4GB SCSI 1x SCSI CD-ROM, all via an Adaptec AHA-2940 (BIOS 1.23) SCSI card. I have loaded the 294x drivers after booting from FDD and then start installation. The CD is found and all goes well (although slowly!) until it stops with... "An error occurred during installation" Has anyone else had similar problems? Is there a log file that I can open with more info re the failure? The equipment was in good working order as it was a working NOVELL box. As a further measure, I am about to try Mandrake 7.1 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: [suse-linux-uk-schools] 6.4 Boot Disk
by adrian.wells 26 Jan '01

26 Jan '01

Right, I've got all sizes in all colours now! How to create Boot Disk from CD on a DOS machine. Run SETUP.EXE ! Not the first place I would have looked, something like "create floppy" would have done it for me. Easy when you know! This will allow one to create Boot, Modules and Rescue disks. Thanks all Adrian Wells ---------- > From: Roger Whittaker <roger(a)suse-linux.co.uk> > To: adrian.wells <adrian.wells(a)sidcot.org.uk> > Cc: SuSE list <suse-linux-uk-schools(a)suse.com> > Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] 6.4 Boot Disk > Date: 25 January 2001 16:44 > > I'm not quite sure what you mean: > > did you succeed in creating a boot floppy from the CD? > > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, adrian.wells wrote: > > > I looked at the disk but couldn't see anything obvious. > > -- > Roger Whittaker > SuSE Linux Ltd > The Kinetic Centre > Theobald Street > Borehamwood > Herts > WD6 4PJ > ---------------------- > 020 8387 1482 > ---------------------- > roger(a)suse-linux.co.uk > ---------------------- >

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] A happy Squid story
by Gary Parr 26 Jan '01

26 Jan '01

Would this then be correct.... acl public_rooms "/usr/local/squid/public_rooms" - list of ip address acl nonedsites "/usr/local/squid/nonedsites" - list of sites to ban # defining break times and games times acl am_break time MTWHF 10:55-11:10 acl lunch time MTWHF 12:10-13:05 acl pm_break time MTWHF 14:05-14:15 acl afterschool time MTWHF 15:50-16:10 # blocking freetime access in public rooms http_access deny public_rooms am_break http_access deny public_rooms lunch http_access deny public_rooms pm_break http_access deny public_rooms afterschool # http_access allow public_rooms # defining lessons times acl P1P2 time MTWHF 08:45-10:55 acl P3 time MTWHF 11:10-12:10 acl P4 time MTWHF 13:05-14:05 acl P5 time MTWHF 14:15-15:15 # block sites during lesson time http_access deny nonedsites P1P2 http_access deny nonedsites P3 http_access deny nonedsites P4 http_access deny nonedsites P5 # http_allow nonedsites So would this ban certain machines at breaks from accessing the net.. Im not to sure about the ban sites part.... im sure theres a url_regex to go in somewhere..... Gary >From: "npauli" <npauli(a)st-johns.org.uk> >To: <suse-linux-uk-schools(a)suse.com> >Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] A happy Squid story >Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 21:48:03 -0000 > >I don't know if Azrael has resolved his acl problems but I've just done >something vaguely similar and so far, touch wood, it seems to be working >(famous last words...) > >But before I get onto that, I noticed in my notes that on the advice of >squid.conf I uncommented the following two lines: > >acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \? >no_cache deny QUERY > >any help? > >First off, I was having problems with people downloading MS Messenger and >getting into chat rooms, etc. So, I found out that to get it you download a >file called mmssetup.exe or, in one case only, msnsetup.exe. I then opened >/usr/local/squid/logs/access.log and used a find utilty to check out these >lines and, sure enough, they were pointing to download sites for messenger. > >So I added the following to squid.conf > ># blocking MS messenger >acl messenger1 url_regex mmssetup.exe >acl messenger2 url_regex msnsetup.exe >http_access deny messenger1 >http_access deny messenger2 > >I then did > >/usr/local/squid/bin/squid -k reconfigure >to tell squid to re-read its now altered config file. > >I then had to purge the offending setup.exe files from my cache. To do that >I had to add the following line to my squid.conf (I bunged it in under >#Defaults along with a bunch of other acls.) > >acl PURGE method purge > >Then I used the client program that comes with squid to do the dirty work. >You have to give the full url of the file you want purged - just using the >regex mmssetup.exe as you can in the acl produces a "sorry, squire" error >message. > >/usr/local/squid/bin/client -m PURGE http://full/url/mmssetup.exe > >did the business, though. [And I don't know about your mail reader but mine >insists on adding blue and underlining to that argument above.] > >Next problem. We now have network stations in the library and one classroom >that I can't keep an eye on at breaktimes. The following lines from >squid.conf deal with it. > >acl public_rooms "/usr/local/squid/public_rooms" > ># defining break times and games times >acl am_break time MTWHF 10:50-11:15 >acl lunch time MTH 12:25-13:25 >acl pm_break time MTWHF 14:30-14:50 >acl games time WF 12:25-15:50 >acl afterschool time MTWHF 15:50-16:10 > ># blocking freetime access in public rooms >http_access deny public_rooms am_break >http_access deny public_rooms lunch >http_access deny public_rooms pm_break >http_access deny public_rooms games >http_access deny public_rooms afterschool ># http_access allow public_rooms > >/usr/local/squid/public_rooms is simply a text file containing the ip >addresses of the network stations that I wanted to go 'off air' as far as >squid and the internet were concerned at the times defined in those acl >lines. Each ip address in the text file should be on its own line. >Originally I included their netmasks as well e.g. >123.14.56.48/255.255.255.192 but I later removed them. > >Okay, so I did this on a Sunday afternoon (don't forget to use linuxconf to >ensure that your squid box and the school bells agree on the time) and >Monday morning I waited to see what would happen at 10:50. Sure enough, at >that moment *every* station in the school was denied access. So I commented >out the lines I'd added, did >/usr/local/squid/bin/squid -k reconfigure >to give it back to everyone, reconsulted the FAQ and guide and decided >1. to remove the netmasks from those ip addresses, and >2. to leave everything commented out except > >acl public_rooms "/usr/local/squid/public_rooms" >acl lunch time MTH 12:25-13:25 >http_access deny public_rooms lunch > >Much better! At lunch only the correct stations went out. Since then I've >added back in the corresponding acl and http_access deny lines as each >break >comes around with no further problems. > >As my users are gratifyingly disrespectful towards authority, I can have >the >pleasurable experience of popping into my office towards the end of a break >and doing >grep -e 123.14.56.48 /usr/local/squid/logs/access.log >and gazing fondly at those lines that read TCP_DENIED/403 > >I hope someone will find this write-up handy. I'm partly doing it to teach >myself to take sufficient notes as I do new things to the network and make >changes. > >Nigel. > >Nigel Pauli - St. John's School, Northwood > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] 6.4 Boot Disk
by adrian.wells 25 Jan '01

25 Jan '01

Thanks for these, I looked at the disk but couldn't see anything obvious. I experimented last night and managed to make a rescue disk (which appears to be useless without a boot disk!) - I am now trying to use the 6.3 Boot disk with 6.4 installation CDs. This looked like it would work at home. The Adaptec card is working (that took a long time) and the installation starts loading 'data into the ram disk' This is taking forever with no (apparent) CD access, although I have been leaving it to cook. Is this a hardware problem or is it because I am using a 6.3 boot disk & 6.4 install? About to have another go. :-) > As far as I know all Linux distros come with a means of creating a boot disc. > Many have a Dos program called rawrite. You can boot a PC into Dos mode > with CD support and then create the boot disc. Yout manual should tell you > how to do this. I do not have SuSE 6.4 but if you need more help I will look up > a few of my distros, Slackware, RedHat and SuSE and send you some example > syntax, instruction sets. > best wishes, > norman > Yes, the disk you need is on the first CD in the directory called disks. > You can transfer them to floppy using e.g. > > dd if=bootdisk of=/dev/fd0 > > or, on DOS the rawrite tool from the dosutils directory. > > Good luck.

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Hyperterminal substitute
by Giles Nunn 25 Jan '01

25 Jan '01

Does anyone know a reliable linux substitute for hyperterminal. I have tried minicom which is ok as a terminal but has problems uploading via xmodem. One of my tasks is uploading firmare upgrades to routers and at the moment I still have to find a windows machine and run hyperterm. I do have plans to run windows via VMware for support purposes but I don't know if this will sort out my problem. ____________________________________ Giles Nunn - Network Manager Carms Schools ICT Development Centre Tel: +44 01239 710662 Fax: 710985 ____________________________________

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6.4 Boot Disk
by adrian.wells 25 Jan '01

25 Jan '01

Roger, just about to install SuSE 6.4 on a server and found that my Bootdisk is faulty and no LINUX on this site. Is it possible for me to upload an image of the disk from the SuSE site (I've had a look), or create one from one of the CDs? The server is old with a SCSI CD that does not boot. any ideas please? Adrian

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