June 2001 - openSUSE Edu - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Intranet
by Dave Williams 15 Jun '01

15 Jun '01

Thanks to Phil for his info on IGear logins and PHP. I don't understand this yet - nothing new in that - but I'm not going to look into it until I've solved a more fundamental problem. This is hopefully something very simple - I've set up Squid so that if I dial out using wvdial and a modem, Squid can proxy/cache relevant internet files and clients can access them - so far so good. But if I connect through the city proxy using Netscape on the machine with Squid how does Squid find out where to get the Internet files. I can surf with Netscape on the Squid machine via the LEA proxy but I can't connect to a working version of Squid from the clients. I've searched through squid.conf without success. Obviously wvdial makes some sort of announcement which Squid detects and then uses. Any help appreciated. Dave

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installing IP settings under windows
by James & Cybèle 14 Jun '01

14 Jun '01

Thanks to the good advice of this list I've managed to get the office netowork to go out through SQUID.....but only on some machines. On the others I can't add TCP/IP that is tied to the network card....anyideas how I do it Thanks James Carter SOuth Lee School

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Page the Oracle
by ptaylor 13 Jun '01

13 Jun '01

Hi all: Has anyone (Roger?) tried to install oracle 9i on a SuSE box? I received a copy of 9i (time locked I assume) with no documentation and keep getting segmentation errors when I try to load it as pe the instructions. It seems to be clashing with the Java running on the machine?? I triedto upload screen shotsand text files as a guide to what error messages I am getting but they did not go through. Anyone know of any how-tos? Paul

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Intranet
by Dave Williams 13 Jun '01

13 Jun '01

Thanks for all the really useful advice. The main problem I have with squid is that I have not found a way to connect it to our LEA proxy which uses Igear login software. The LEA proxy is provided "free" via an ISDN line. I have asked about this before - anyone know how this can be done? Thanks again Dave

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RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Intranet
by Grainge, Derek 12 Jun '01

12 Jun '01

>> 1) Is it legitimate to "cache" pages from websites locally on >> an Intranet server? > A quick question - do you mean cache or mirror? Yes, we too thought of mirroring certain commonly used sites. However it's an administrator's job, and administrators are usually busy people. The advantage of caching is that it's an invisible process; you don't set up anything special, but recently used pages will be delivered to anyone who wants them. Therefore we looked at mirroring and decided to forget it. I suggest you whack in a proxy and give it a lot of space to put its stuff in. Should be able to run proxy, NAT and firewall on one machine if you're pushed for space. -- ******************************************************************************** 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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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Intranet
by kevin.taylor＠powerconv.alstom.com 12 Jun '01

12 Jun '01

> 1) Is it legitimate to "cache" pages from websites locally on > an Intranet server? A quick question - do you mean cache or mirror? Caching is a way of temporarily storing pages that are regularly viewed, by checking the modification times of the stored pages with the originals to see if the copy needs updating. Eventually, cached versions time out. Once set up this is an automatic process, but pages are only placed in the cache if someone actually looks at them (and only single pages are stored, not whole sites ... unless someone looks at every page on a site). Mirroring is when you 'snapshot' a whole site, in order to obtain a local copy of that site, which people can use without connecting to the Internet at all. This is usually a person-driven activity - ie the admin performs a mirror from time to time of the sites in question. People have already responded about caching (squid and apache can run as a caching proxy server). Mirroring would typically involve things like wget, or even lynx ... Kevin.

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Intranet
by Dave Williams 11 Jun '01

11 Jun '01

Hello all I'm trying to set up an Intranet. I've got Apache running on a server and it delivers html pages to the clients with no apparent problems. However, the long term aim was to use it to deliver Internet content which might otherwise be unavailable/slow. 1) Is it legitimate to "cache" pages from websites locally on an Intranet server? 2) Can anyone recommend software which will capture said pages. 3) Will the software enable all content to be captured ie including interactive quiz type pages. I already use the excellent WebGet (Risc OS) by Joseph Heenan but that does not seem to capture all types of content. Thanks Dave Williams

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Scrubbing hard drives clean
by npauli 11 Jun '01

11 Jun '01

Dear All, A parent wants to give us some old machines from their accountancy practice. What I'm looking for is a product, device or procedure that will remove all data from their hard drives. Any suggestions? Thanks, Nigel Nigel Pauli St. John's School, Northwood

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RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Scrubbing hard drives clean
by Grainge, Derek 11 Jun '01

11 Jun '01

Fdisk doesn't scrub unfortunately. Anyone with technical knowhow can still see the files. Ditto when files are deleted, ditto when a hard drive is reformatted (sometimes). You need a program which will wipe free space. Do the machines have Windows on them or linux? Lots of stuff for windows. It's a long time since I reformatted a linux drive - I seem to remember that in some versions that when you create a linux partition it scrubs the old contents? -----Original Message----- From: Royal Latin School [mailto:rbloomfield@royallatin.schoolzone.co.uk] Sent: 11 June 2001 17:01 To: npauli; Suse-Linux List Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Scrubbing hard drives clean fdisk? :-) There are a couple of commercial Win based disk scrubbing tools (paranoia level), such as those found in Norton Utilities, and PGP...... PGP is available freeware. Regards, Robb Bloomfield -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQA/AwUBOnqp7pLoTHZaFLiuEQKXegCfZBI/ZqaYLSuNPqyYb3O/+AQaoPMAmwZ3 wL2zJ3u67tXeitxrenFk2XgZ =UMho -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- This e-mail is intended for the addressee shown. It contains information that is confidential and protected from disclosure. Any review, dissemination or use of this transmission or its contents by persons or unauthorized employees of the intended organisations is strictly prohibited. The contents of this email do not necessarily represent the views or policies of the Royal Latin School, it's employees or students. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-help(a)suse.com -- ******************************************************************************** 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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DPT SCSI Card
by Glenn Cameron 11 Jun '01

11 Jun '01

A year and a half ago we built one of our old RM FX servers as a Linux server using Suse 6.3 and running squid. It's been sitting in the corner doing its job without a problem and we are very happy with it. We would like to do the same at our sister school who have the a virtually identical server, however I can't remember how we managed to get our DPT 2024 SCSI card to be recognised. Searching the SuSE hardware database doesn't seem to help - can someone point me in the right direction? I'm guessing other RM sites will have done the same thing, and obviously we did but I just can't remember what we did - and going into YaST doesn't seem to tell me what we did either! Suggestions much appreciated. Best Regards, Glenn Cameron King Henry VIII School, Coventry

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