Hello Community
The Li-f-e: Linux for Education[1] DVD has been updated, here are the
important changes:
* Gnome 2.26.3
* Firefox 3.5
* Latest Sugar, Browse activity now using mozilla xpcom and xulrunner
version 1.9.1
* All openSUSE 11.1 updates since last image
Happy learning...
-J
[1] http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Live
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Hi all,
Please check out my update on the YaST Education module at [1]. I
know some had requested that I post the module on the Build Service,
and I will have it up there tomorrow evening after I have the
DansGuardian stuff polished up and finished. It is already on OBS,
but the version there doesn't do much of anything right now, so I will
send out a link to it tomorrow once I've updated it. Thanks.
Regards,
Jeff Shantz
[1] - http://www.jeffshantz.com/2009/07/11/summer-of-code-update-week-7/
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Hi
Below is the suggestion I received from Thomas, James would you take
care of submission please?
Cheers
-J
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From: Thomas C Gilliard <satellit(a)bendbroadband.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 3:01 AM
Subject: Why don't you list your openSUSE-EDU applications here
To: cyberorg(a)opensuse.org
Why don't you list your openSUSE-EDU applications here:
http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=submit
It would get you more coverage of your work.
Tom Gilliard
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Hi all,
I've been working on getting Dansguardian/Squid configured by the YaST
Education module lately. My Dansguardian SCR module writes the
configuration files properly, I have per-group filtering setup and
configured, but I am having problems getting Dansguardian/Squid to
play nicely with SuSEfirewall2. Below is a repost of my blog post on
it. If anyone has any ideas and can help or point me to someone who
can, I would appreciate it since I've now been stuck on this problem
for a number of days and I'm pulling my hair out. Thanks.
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It's been a busy few weeks. I moved to a new apartment early last
week, so my life has been full of boxes and packing materials for
quite some time now. Alas, the stress is over and life goes on.
Okay, this update is more of a cry for help. I am calling on all
SuSEfirewall2 / iptables experts out there. I am working on the
Dansguardian filtering for the YaST Education module right now and
have everything done on it. The only problem is that I can't get
SuSEfirewall2 to play nice with my custom iptables rules to enable
forwarding requests on port 80 to 8080 (Dansguardian's port).
So here's the deal. I've got Dansguardian on port 8080 and Squid on
port 3128. I need it to be a transparent proxy so that kids can't
circumvent it easily. Also, the firewall is the client itself since
most parents/teachers won't have another system lying around to be a
separate firewall system. Therefore, all requests will be originating
from the firewall system itself.
Now, I have custom iptables rules to forward requests on port 80 to
Dansguardian on 8080 (which, in turn, forwards the requests to Squid).
The rules are as follows
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -m owner --uid-owner squid -j ACCEPT
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 3128 -m owner --uid-owner
squid -j ACCEPT
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8080
Thus, we redirect 80 to 8080 in rule 3, and we allow Squid to do its
magic in rules 1 and 2. This works PERFECTLY when I don't have
SuSEfirewall2 enabled. When I enable the firewall, however, pages
just keep loading forever.
Now, before anyone tells me that I should be using the PREROUTING
chain or tells me to use the FW_REDIRECT setting in
/etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2, keep in mind that all requests originate
from the firewall itself, and these settings only work for requests
originating from other machines.
So, I have these custom rules and I've added them to
/etc/sysconfig/scripts/SuSEfirewall2-custom in the
fw_custom_before_denyall() hook. I then added the following to
/etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2:
FW_CUSTOMRULES="/etc/sysconfig/scripts/SuSEfirewall2-custom"
Perfect. I can see that the rules are being loaded by SuSEfirewall2
when I do an iptables -t nat -nvL after starting the firewall. But,
as I say, pages just load forever after turning on the firewall.
All relevant details are posted in my post in the openSUSE forums at [1].
I would appreciate anyone with knowledge in iptables / SuSEfirewall2
taking a look and posting a reply so that I can stop pulling my hair
out and keep on progressing in this project.
Thanks to all!
[1] http://forums.opensuse.org/network-internet/417523-transparent-proxy-using-…
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: Eduforge and SVN GUI's
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:33:20 +1200
From: Richard Wyles <richard(a)flexible.co.nz>
To: 'James Tremblay aka SLEducator' <fxrsliberty(a)opensuse.us>
References: <4A365BF4.6010008(a)opensuse.us>
Hi James,
I have used TortoiseSVN with Eduforge but I think it did request a password
every time if I recall correctly. We could sort this out but I must warn you
that are soon to replace Eduforge.org with a new platform that will not be
offering version control system. This is scheduled in approximately 3
months.
We will be migrating to a new platform with a new mission of advocacy,
show-casing projects and training on OSS. I would recommend that openSIS has
a good presence on Eduforge and that we showcase your projects. However,
unfortunately we can no longer afford the full suite of "forge" tools and
support.
Regards
Richard
-----Original Message-----
From: James Tremblay aka SLEducator [mailto:fxrsliberty@opensuse.us]
Sent: 16 June 2009 2:34 a.m.
To: richard(a)flexible.co.nz
Subject: Eduforge and SVN GUI's
Richard,
I was wondering if you could help us understand the use of SVN GUI's
like TortoiseSVN or RapidSVN , Either of these seem unable to use SSH
without requesting the password with every action. I have followed
several posts on the subject and I even updated my public key within the
site. I am looking forward to hearing from you.
JT
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Here is the first beta version of a brand new security tool:
'checkroot' is the first tool to retrieve fingerprint/gpg-pubkey updates
online and therefore allows a trusted verification of your root file
system roughly based on rpm --verify. Not even debsums can do that.
download: http://wwwu.edu.uni-klu.ac.at/estellnb/checkroot/
It can serve as a pre-replacement for feature #306508:
https://features.opensuse.org/306508.
Besides this it may be a good example for the usage of private/public
gpg keys (edu-purposes).
Feedback welcome. Further testing required.
Elmar Stellnberger
Michael Schroeder
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Greetings all!
Let me stick my ignorant oar back in the water..... (hit delete if you
desire...)
First, it was a great install. Good job.
A few issues tho, being nitpicky :) I wish I could honestly help
building it out rather than just reporting on subjective issues...
Cron: Moodle is not enable or configured on the end install. Result.
Lots of emails generate by Cron to Root.
Italc: I know, not your issue really, but I admit being unable to
find an answer at the moment..... I generated the new keypair, but I
cannot access any clients. The following is the only excerpt from the
italc_client.log (master is empty)
-- Tue Jun 30 15:51:12 2009: [warning] QDir::mkpath: Empty or null file name(s)
Any clues would be helpful. I have read the wiki. Do I need to
rebuild the client images in order for it to work correctly? That I
did not do.
Pulseaudio - does not kill itself. Leaves a lot of 'zombies' around.
If the user reboots the terminal, then the previous session is still
alive. They tend to accumulate. Temp workaround was to add a cron
job to the cron.daily that runs at midnight (script checks to ensure
it is the right hour and not 3pm) and do a killall pulseaudio.
Zombie user sessions: Again, sometimes as a result of the end user
rebooting. (I was configuring the system while it was in use, and had
to ask a few to restart from time to time). It would leave both
Pulseaudio and gconf running.
Sabayon: probably an issue with the mainstream install. Does a error
dump after any action.
Yast: GUI errors crop up sometimes. I need to snapshot them and file
them with the main distro bugzilla.
Since Sabayon is not running, and the EDU switched to a Gnome build, I
don't have a means of editing out the menus to restrict them per
'class'. I would like to only display the appropriate type of
programs for the age groups that are using it. I have it broken down
in to elementary and highschool. I would also like to remove the
'non-working' icons that they should not need from the side menu. In
other words, simplify it. They don't need YAST on their menu. :)
Thoughts? Dirty Jokes? Comments?
Thanks!
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Here is the first beta version of a brand new security tool:
'checkroot' is the first tool to retrieve fingerprint/gpg-pubkey updates
online and therefore allows a trusted verification of your root file
system roughly based on rpm --verify. Not even debsums can do that.
download: http://wwwu.edu.uni-klu.ac.at/estellnb/checkroot/
It can serve as a pre-replacement for feature #306508:
https://features.opensuse.org/feature/save/306508
Besides this it may be a good example for the usage of private/public
gpg keys (edu-purposes).
Feedback welcome. Further testing required.
Elmar Stellnberger
Michael Schroeder
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Sorry, send it from the wrong account, so this if re-forward to James/Cyberorg
> No issues, I know the paying job has to count first! (well, I hope it
> is paying!).
>
> I understand, although 10p is a bit early to a degree, he in France?
> My associates in Geneva were generally available up until about 2 EST
> with only 6 hours difference most of the time. That said, I usually
> worked more in China with a 12 hour difference :)
>
> Would really like to get iTALC working. Happy to document the steps
> later if needed. I would like to assist more than just gripe :)
>
> Yes, have a valid Novell and OpenSuse ID although my paid support
> contract with Novell has lapsed from my previous employer. Even have a
> open build ID by mistake :)
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