March 2001 - openSUSE Edu - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Still not quite there with SENDMAIL
by Andrew Ray 28 Mar '01

28 Mar '01

At 09:14 28/03/01 +0100, kevin.taylor(a)powerconv.alstom.com wrote: >What are you using to configure sendmail ? Linuxconf ? sendmail.mc ? >(I know nothing about what SuSE uses ... sorry roger - never done >sendmail on SuSE :-) I have. In /etc/mail you'll find 'access'. This is a text file which gets DBM'd (converted into a database format, extension .db added) by SuSEconfig. You can add directives like: 10.0 RELAY to allow mail to pass through (N.B. only supply the network part of your IP address, no trailing full stops) or myschool.fsnet.co.uk OK to allow mail handling for your own domain. You can also block certain incoming mail with naughtyporn.com 550 No disgusting mails, please where the 550 is one of the many sendmail rejection codes! the SuSE implementation also places forwarding info in /etc/mail/mailertable. A line like . smtp:smtp.dial.pipex.com has the effect of adding appropriate directives directly into sndmail.cf! Just run SuSEconfig after you've edited the file. (There are countless examples in the dummy file suppplied.) You'd be wise to investigate virtusertable and genericstable in /etc/mail as well - these are also DBM'd by SuSEconfig. To test your sendmail if you get close to functioning, try sendmail -bv somemadeupname(a)somemadeupplace.com You should get something like somemadeupname(a)somemadeupplace.com ... deliverable, mailer relay host smtp.dial.pipex.com, user somemadeupname(a)somemadeupplace.com Tested on a local user address, the message should read: sendmail -bv myrealuser(a)mydomain.co.uk ... deliverable, mailer local, user myrealuser. Good luck Andrew Email: aray(a)computerpark.co.uk Tel: +44 1536 417155 Fax: +44 1536 417566 Computer Park Ltd Broughton Grange Headlands Kettering Northamptonshire NN14 6TA

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Welsh Assembly - Education & Lifelong Learning Committee - Final Report
by Alan Harris 28 Mar '01

28 Mar '01

Hi all, Mainly for Malcom and Roger but will be of interest to all network managers / ict techs working in education and opensource advocates..... Copies of the above report are available from gareth.woodhead(a)wales.gsi.gov.uk Might it not be a good idea for all opensource advocates within wales to get a copy and see where/if oss can fit into the reports findings? Apparently copies of the responses recieved from lea education directors and it advisors from each of the welsh counties to earlier consultation processes are available at the www.wales.gov.uk website under Pre 16 Education Schools and Early Learning Committee for the meeting of the 15th of December as paper PRE 16 10-99 (p.5). If you can find it then please let me know because I can't! There may be an opportunity for the opensource community here, if there is then lets not miss this chance! Alan ----------------------------------------------------- Alan Harris Network Manager Bryngwyn School Tel : 01554 750661 Fax : 01554 758255 E-mail: alanh(a)bryngwyn.carmarthen.sch ----------------------------------------------------- Notes: 1. The contents of this email may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown purposes! Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000. 2. The opinions expressed in this email are personal and may not be shared by Bryngwyn School. -----------------------------------------------------

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Help with configuring apache
by Alan Harris 28 Mar '01

28 Mar '01

Thanks everybody, I've finally got it working at last.... sorted out the permissions and httpd.conf and lo - it worked. I do believe i'm beginning to learn (and remember) a few things! Later I will experiment with the LFSP software from Phil Jones but felt that I had to sort out the problems myself in order to understand what it is that the software is doing. So, in the last 8 days (with much help from the list) i've finally got a working NIS/NFS server with two stations attached as NIS/NFS clients, a working www server and been very impressed with the LTSP software! alan ----------------------------------------------------- Alan Harris Network Manager Bryngwyn School Tel : 01554 750661 Fax : 01554 758255 E-mail: alanh(a)bryngwyn.carmarthen.sch ----------------------------------------------------- Notes: 1. The contents of this email may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown purposes! Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000. 2. The opinions expressed in this email are personal and may not be shared by Bryngwyn School. -----------------------------------------------------

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Still not quite there with SENDMAIL
by kevin.taylor＠powerconv.alstom.com 28 Mar '01

28 Mar '01

> Any Sendmail wizards out there? Not a wizard ... but ... > How do you allow Sendmail to accept mail from certain IP addresses? If you have a /etc/mail directory (as I do on my red-hat system at work) for sendmail, I have some files: relay_allow - Who can relay via my machine ip_allow - which IP addresses can connect to my machine name_allow - which domain names can connect to my machine The actual file names may vary, as it is down to directives in /etc/sendmail.cf which determine where the extra bits come from (you can embed the whole lot in one hugh /etc/sendmail.cf file ...) What are you using to configure sendmail ? Linuxconf ? sendmail.mc ? (I know nothing about what SuSE uses ... sorry roger - never done sendmail on SuSE :-) linuxconf can do it, but it uses directives that are out of date apparently, so using the sendmail.mc file is preferred - also all the FAQs and howtos, etc at sendmail.org talk about the sendmail.mc stuff ... Kevin.

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2.4 Kernel Code Meeting
by Richard 28 Mar '01

28 Mar '01

Sheffield Linux Users Group (ShefLUG) 1 pm Saturday 14th April 2001 finish at about 4 p.m. ShefLUG Venue: Blackwell's Bookshop West Street Sheffield S1 3ST for the location of Blackwell's bookshop see http://www.multimap.co.uk you need to dial in the postcode which is S1 3ST. For information about trams, trains and buses phone 01709 515151.Starting at 1 p.m. Rusty Russell will give a talk about 2.4 kernel code and related issues. Rusty Russell is flying in from Oz to give us a talk on the 2.4 kernel code and related issues. Rusty is well known for his abilities with a keyboard. Rusty is best known as packet filter maintainer for the Linux Kernel. Most recently, he created a generic packet filtering architecture "netfilter", on top of which he implemented a new packet filtering and full NAT systems. His many distractions include editing the File Hierarchy Standard 2.2, writing Rusty's Unreliable Guides, and the Linux Graphing Project. We would very much like to see a large crowd turn up for this meeting. If you would like to download the flyer for this and print it out for the wall at work or for your school or University then please do. It's not very often that Rusty comes to this country and we'd like to make him feel welcome. For related information have a look at....... http://www.sheflug.co.uk/meeting.html Thank you Richard Sheffield Linux User's Group http://www.sheflug.co.uk GNU the choice of a complete generation.

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Re: LTSP
by paul.munro1 28 Mar '01

28 Mar '01

Thanks to all who answered my questions regarding thin-clients. Being one who never used to like the idea of thin clients, I have now seen that there are definitely positive sides to it and I'll look into it further. My apologies for not replying sooner- I've been down with some kind of bug this week so am just getting round to answering my mail :-O Paul

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Still not quite there with SENDMAIL
by James & Cybèle 28 Mar '01

28 Mar '01

Hi again, thanks again for all the continued help with my SENDMAIL woes...... 1.I can send mail to the internet...isn't that on PORT 25? 2.ps agr gives sendmail accepting connection on Port 25. 3. If I try to run sendmail in the foreground SENDMAIL -bD I get opendaemonsocket; cannot bind Address already in use. WHAT? Still can't see what. 4. I'm getting confused with inetd.conf. THis contains a hashed out smtd line that I don't need according to what I've read because the SENDMAIL daemon now runs things? I made changes to hosts.allow as suggested by Frank and when I try /usr/sbin/tcpdchk -v -i /etc/inetd.conf it tells me about an unknown operation in inetd.conf. 5. When I telnet to my FQDN on port 25 I get refused and it then tries the local host. I found a useful page on the net in SWEDISH! 6. Here are the last few lines from todays log. starting daemon SMTP NOQUEUE SYSERR(root) opendeamonsocket cannot bind address in use problem creating SMTP socket Why isn't ps agr (or whatever) listing something else on PORT 25 if that is what it is complaining about........ glug....glug.......... James Carter

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telneting to my machine
by James & Cybèle 28 Mar '01

28 Mar '01

>This may provide a clue. If there is nothing in the log, then >check that sendmail is running and accessible from the >internet >side (maybe try to get someone to telnet to your >machine, on port 25 and see if they get a text banner, whilst you are >online ... ?) How do I telnet to my machine? Surely telnetting to my INternet registered name just gets me to my ISP and my intranet name is not known in the "real "world?????? thanks James Carter

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Star Office - not in German!
by Alan Davies 27 Mar '01

27 Mar '01

I'm still having trouble with Star Office. It installed fine with SUSE 6.4 It installed German version with SuSE 7.0 I found the so_en inside pay2 on the DVD I clicked on it and KPV took control - refusing to install it as it claimed conficts with so-de. I used Yast to remove everything 'so'.... (a mistake, I should have left the base pack there) I went back to KPV and the rpm and.....it wouldn't install so-base because it required so-lang. I cannot find the so_lang rpm anywhere on the DVD. Help please..... (and I still can't print to the HP printer. Yast installed HP PCL stuff and printed the test page fine.....but I cannot print anything from anything. Where do I start looking?) -- Alan Davies Head of Computing Birkenhead School

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More mem
by Gary Parr 26 Mar '01

26 Mar '01

Hi Ive just installed some more mem in our machine that runs Squid. Is there anything I need to do? Someone mentioned having to change the size of the swop partion? Gary _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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