July 2000 - openSUSE Edu - openSUSE Mailing Lists

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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Time
by David Willmor 28 Jul '00

28 Jul '00

what is the command to change the time on the system from the command line? thanks for any help David Willmor IT Services Hayes School

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Printing with Samba
by kevin.taylor＠powerconv.alstom.com 28 Jul '00

28 Jul '00

> I assume this allows you to place spool data > into a directory. My question is how do > you print this data once it is there? Normally, the usual linux 'lpr' subsystem takes over, once it is in the spool (this is configured using the 'printer capabilities database' - /etc/printcap - I think) I think lpq lists the printer queue - there is also a general 'control' command that lets you obtain the status of printers, etc - but I can't remember what it is (it is probably listed on the man page for lpr and lpq). There are generally 2 ways of printing via samba : 1. Drivers are on the Linux box, and clients just print using basic drivers and let Linux do the formatting (eg ghostscript, etc for ps jobs, etc) 2. Linux box treats printer as a 'raw device' - ie it has effectively no driver for the printer. In this case, the normal windows drivers are installed on the clients, and Linux just passes on the received data direct to the printer. In the latter case, Linux could not print to the device (without an additional local printer configuration being setup). Kevin.

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Printing with Samba
by David Willmor 28 Jul '00

28 Jul '00

I was examining a sample smb.conf file and noticed the following: - [myprinter] comment = My Printer valid users = me path = /home/me printer = my_printer public = no printable = yes I assume this allows you to place spool data into a directory. My question is how do you print this data once it is there? I would appreciate any thoughts that anyone has on this subject. David Willmor IT Services Hayes School

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Anyone looked at galeon yet?
by Paul Hornshaw 28 Jul '00

28 Jul '00

Hi All (again) Has anyone looked at the galeon web browser yet? It's a gnome/mozilla based browser. The screenshot looks very impressive, and I believe it's not so heavy on the resources. It's still in alpha development though. I'm not so keen on Netscape because of a serious lock up problem that I had: (hdd thrashing)swap file overload/cpu load hitting 100% and the only way I could exit was to switch off. Not a pleasant experience. I don't like Mozilla much and Iynx is a bit fuddy duddy (for me). Anyone know of any other browsers around? Is there a linux version of Opera? Anyway, here's the link for galeon: http://galeon.sourceforge.net/ cheers, -- paul I've tried to give them up. But I'm back on the sigs again.

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Fw:
by adrian.wells 27 Jul '00

27 Jul '00

By the way... Someone in RM support told me a little while ago that they were 'shipping LINUX' - The chap eventually found what he was looking for and the conversation was dropped! Adrian

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Fw:
by nick-drage＠gmx.ch 27 Jul '00

27 Jul '00

Hi, > On 27-Jul-2000 adrian.wells wrote: > > Got this from RM this morning, do you think that they may be > > playing with LINUX? > > Yep. Netcraft says it's a Linux box. On the offchance I tried a > telnet, an the telnet prompt reports kernel 2.0.33. They're running > Apache on it as well. 2.0.33? Hopefully they've changed the prompt, when was 2.0.33 out? Then again, hopefully your telnet connection went to a completely different box that's sitting there waiting to catch potential hackers. > I won't probe further, but I rather think someone there needs a > meaty application of the clue stick; an obviously unused web server > is running with the default pages, and telnet is open. Betcha other > stuff is open that shouldn't be.... OK, two courses of action: ONE - considering that RM is a target for all those disgrunted students of yours struggling with puberty / being a teenager / etc someone with access to RM support phone numbers and email addresses should have a word with RM *real soon*. TWO - Roger puts up a promise of a copy of SuSE 6.5 as the prize, first list subscriber to change the telnet prompt to "This host has been annexed by the SuSE Linux schools mailing list" wins :) -- f�rchten Sie den blauen Bildschirm des Todes Sent through Global Message Exchange - http://www.gmx.net

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Fw:
by adrian.wells 27 Jul '00

27 Jul '00

Got this from RM this morning, do you think that they may be playing with LINUX? ---------- > From: root(a)owl.rmplc.co.uk > To: > Subject: > Date: 26 July 2000 16:56 > > > _________________________________________________________ > > RM Networks Mail List http://support.rm.com/connect/forums/ > _________________________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe send a message to majordomo(a)rmplc.co.uk with the body text : > UNSUBSCRIBE RM-NETWORKS youraddress > > For help please contact : rm-list-help(a)rmplc.co.uk

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Print Server
by David Willmor 27 Jul '00

27 Jul '00

We are currently implementing a new Learning Resources Centre with 100 new PC's running Windows 98. We are looking for a way for all machines to send their printouts to a single machine which a member of staff can use to send to a specific non-networked printer. Does anyone have any ideas? David Willmor IT Services Hayes School

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