Why would you want to compile a FTP server into the kernel. I have never heard of anybody doing that before. Me neither and I am only passing on what was asked of me. I have some reasonable experience of Linux as I have been using it for 6 years, but I would not call myself an expert. The guys in Tech support have used the
On Thursday 27 Nov 2003 7:58 pm, you wrote: linux kernel and lilo for 3-4 years as part of Novell but know little of Linux. I think (from what they have said to me) they would like to have a custom kernel that has tftp capabilities so that when they go to remote schools to do the never ending M$ updates, they can boot the linux kernel and download a new partition of changes. The linux kernel is unaffected and they can then ghost the machine and pump it out to all the others on site usig Zend. As I said earlier, I hope this is a temprorary measure as I will eliminate M$ from the school as soon as I can.
There is a multitude of FTP servers available for Linux. proFTP is the easiest the setup. If you can set up Apache you can set up proFTP, since the config files are almost identical. pureFTP is the most secure, so the choice is yours
Regards John
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Taylor"
To: "SuSE for Schools" Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 7:07 PM Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] kernel bogie Hi all:
If I can divert your energies for a moment from an excellent debate. It relates only slightly tenuously off topic (since SuSE/SUSE is now SuSELL). At my current school they are Novell-o-philes and use a Linux partition on every machine to deliver a customised M$ partition (I am, with the support
of
most at the school, trialling thin client to get rid of M$
completely-watch
this space). However, they would like to modify the 2.4.18 kernel they
use
so that it can run a tftp server so that they can load some new files onto one machine locally and then push it out to all at the site. We have
taken
over the LEA support contract for 8 local promaries and hope to get more. All of them use OO. Since they are familiar now, they will have none of
the
objections cited by other writers on this list from parents. The battle needs to be started at an earlier stage and primaries I think are much
more
recipient to the get rid of M$ argument. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how this might be done? I know
that
tftp as a client sits in the sbin or bin, but we need a tftp server. I
have
recompilled a kernel a few times before with pretty guis but have not
toyed
at the command line. Paul
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