November 2000 - openSUSE Edu - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Boot check
by ptaylor 30 Nov '00

30 Nov '00

To all: I have installed 6.4 and recently updated it to 7 as a proxy server. When I installed the machine at school I am almost certain it had 128MB RAM but recently it has become very sluggish and I did a mem check and it now has 64MB. We have a network manager that is an ex-A level student and tech support is run by upper school students and things do tend to go walkies on occassion. Is there any record of what was the original machine specs when I loaded 6.4 several months ago? It is more for peace of mind than anything else. I assume there is a text file somewhere? Paul

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Hp Lasers with Jetdirect
by Giles Nunn 30 Nov '00

30 Nov '00

Has anyone had any experience of using HP jetdirect printers from linux? I have a 4050 here working ok for all our MS workstations it gets its network setup from the linux dhcp server with no problems but I have not got around to using it from my linux workstation yet. Any hints gratefully accepted. TIA ____________________________________ Giles Nunn - Network Manager Carms Schools ICT Development Centre Tel: +44 01239 710662 Fax: 710985 ____________________________________

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Linux Demo Days
by Richard 29 Nov '00

29 Nov '00

Sheffield Linux Users Group (ShefLUG) Linux Demonstration Days 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 pm 7th, 8th and 9th December 2000 ShefLUG Venue: Blackwell's bookshop 156-160 West Street Sheffield S1 3ST for the location of the shop see http://www.multimap.co.uk and dial in the postcode for Blackwell's. All you have to do is walk in and ask one of the people where the demo is. For information about trams, trains and buses phone 01709 515151. This is a final announcement for our pre-Christmas Linux Demo Days. For more information please have a look at the following web pages.... http://www.suse.de/uk/sheffield.html http://www.sheflug.co.uk/meeting.html the ShefLUG meeting page has a couple of downloadable files from SuSE Ltd which give more info about our demo days that may be of interest to you or anyone else you might happen to be friendly with. We will also see Phil Hands in action. He'll be here to help out with Debian support. I'll provide some basic Red Hat support for those who may have an interest in their software. More about Phil at... http://www.uk.debian.org/~phil/ Thank you Richard Sheffield Linux User's Group http://www.sheflug.co.uk GNU the choice of a complete generation.

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Test: please ignore
by Christopher Mahmood 29 Nov '00

29 Nov '00

-- Cheers, Christopher Mahmood --------------------------------------------------------------- SuSE Inc., Tel: +1-510-628-3380, x5024 580 Second St., Suite 210 Fax: +1-510-628-3381 Oakland CA 94607 Email: ckm(a)suse.com USA WWW: http://www.suse.com ---------------------------------------------------------------

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WINE
by Alan Davies 27 Nov '00

27 Nov '00

After reading the LINUX magazine I thought I'd give WINE another go (I tried it months, possibly years ago). I could not get it to install on my lap top (which never mapped the \ key correctly - is there the equiv of Char map on LINUX?). But the SUSE installation on the school LINUX box had it installed. 'Could not stat /mnt/fd0' - although I don't understand why not as mount and umount works OK by hand. Then 'Invalid path c:\windows' - after I had created /c and /c/windows and /c/windows/system. I understood that unless I was using a genuine windows partition with windows DLLs etc. WINE would use its own. What am I missing? (apart from a better brain) -- Alan Davies Head of Computing Birkenhead School

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PC Xservers, another (wasted?) weekend
by Alan Davies 25 Nov '00

25 Nov '00

OK - so failure is not necessarily a bad thing - I'm still learning and they say you learn more that way(!) MIX Xserver - it appears you can add fonts. I've not succeeded.. but perhaps I should try harder. Complicated by the fact that my proxy is quirky with ftp and 'mgetting' files from command lines is not my forte. Cygwin - well, I downloaded it - still downloading actually... I take it that its not an Xserver but a development system which for GNU on the windows platform on which - it may/should be possible to compile a version of Xfree86.... As I have difficulties compiling a just few lines of C code I don't think I'm going to succeed here.... WeirdX - ah sounds good. I downloaded it. But just what do you run? I tried the various html files which started applets but could not get export DISPLAY=W.X.Y.Z:0.0 to create any session -- Alan Davies Head of Computing Birkenhead School

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Had to remove squid :-(
by Gary Parr 24 Nov '00

24 Nov '00

My squidbox has been fine with RM, except when it seemed one of there caches went down, last week I think. Gary >From: Phillip Deackes <gsmh(a)gmx.co.uk> >To: SuSE-Linux-UK-Schools <suse-linux-uk-schools(a)suse.com> >Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Had to remove squid :-( >Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 18:19:02 +0000 > >After reporting that I was successfully using squid at school on our RM >Connect network, I have just had to remove it. One morning pupils rrported >they were unable to access the 'net. I logged on, as did another member of >staff and we found we were OK, using the squid proxy. I rebooted the Linux >machine but pupils still couldn't access anything apart from the EduWeb >homepage. which would have been cached. I had to change the proxy address >back to the original RM proxy because I could see what was wrong and >couldn't deny the school access to the web while I found out what was >wrong. > >Basically I don't know where to look. The log files mean little to me. I >can open up Netscape on the proxy server itself and access the 'net easily >using isdncache.rmplc.co.uk:8080 as my proxy, so I can verify that this >machine itself is able to connect to the router via the network OK. > >Any ideas? I am not sure what to report - any suggestions would be useful. > >Cheers. > >-- >Phillip Deackes >Gartree High School >Oadby, Leicester _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

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Had to remove squid :-(
by Phillip Deackes 24 Nov '00

24 Nov '00

After reporting that I was successfully using squid at school on our RM Connect network, I have just had to remove it. One morning pupils rrported they were unable to access the 'net. I logged on, as did another member of staff and we found we were OK, using the squid proxy. I rebooted the Linux machine but pupils still couldn't access anything apart from the EduWeb homepage. which would have been cached. I had to change the proxy address back to the original RM proxy because I could see what was wrong and couldn't deny the school access to the web while I found out what was wrong. Basically I don't know where to look. The log files mean little to me. I can open up Netscape on the proxy server itself and access the 'net easily using isdncache.rmplc.co.uk:8080 as my proxy, so I can verify that this machine itself is able to connect to the router via the network OK. Any ideas? I am not sure what to report - any suggestions would be useful. Cheers. -- Phillip Deackes Gartree High School Oadby, Leicester

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Future Development
by prytherch＠talk21.com 24 Nov '00

24 Nov '00

Hello, >>Mailing list, mailing list, mailing list - and a web page. > >I've set up a mailing list OK, I've set it up on the server we use for our LUG. As it has no sendmail it can't do majordomo requests for subscriptions - so I have to add users manually. More typing practice I suppose ;o) Anyway, anyone interested in joining a list to discuss the advancement of free software in schools (with particular reference to Linux on the desktop, but not discounting server development), please e-mail me (prytherch(a)talk21.com) and I'll add you to the list. I only need a valid e-mail address, no other details. - Richard Smedley South Cheshire Linux Users Group it's not a .sig, just the last line of the message. -------------------- talk21 your FREE portable and private address on the net at http://www.talk21.com

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RE: Connect
by Russell Dyas 24 Nov '00

24 Nov '00

Yes they do have a factor, but most schools teach some kind of office software. From personnel experience if the user can not use the software then they don't use teach it. But you comments about other software are true as well, what is clear is that if more main software is written then more schools will use it. Russell Dyas Assistant Systems Administrator

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