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Please critique and add to the attached HOWTO.
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Truman State Linux Users HOWTO
Benjamin Story
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Tips for using Linux with the resources of Truman State.
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Table of Contents
1. About This HOWTO
1.1 Purpose/Scope of this HOWTO
1.2 Acknowledgements and Thanks
2. Introduction
2.1 Truman State Computing Resources
2.2 Truman State Linux Users Group
3. Connecting
3.1 Residential Hall Network
3.2 DNS
3.3 SMB (Network Drives and Printing)
4. E-mail
4.1 Gold
4.2 Fetchmail
4.3 Procmail
5. Security
6. Resources
1. About This HOWTO
1.1 Purpose/Scope
The purpose of this HOWTO is to familiarize Linux users on
the campus of Truman State University with how Linux
interoperates with the rest of the campus computing
community. This document will not delve into details
already explained in other HOWTO's available from the Linux
Documentation Project.
1.2 Acknowledgements and Thanks
I would like to thank the members of the Truman State Linux
Users Group for their comments and suggestions.
2. Introduction
2.1 Truman State Computing Resources
The University provides many computing resources via the
campus network. These include web hosting, printing, network
storage, e-mail, and library resources among other things.
All of these resources are easily accessable with a standard
Windows or Macintosh based PC, but support for Linux is not
yet up to par which is the reason for this HOWTO.
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2.2 Truman State Linux Users Group
The Truman State Linux Users Group (TSLUG) was founded in
October of 1999 to facilitate communication between users of
the Linux operating system. The group meets the first and
third weeks of each month during school on Thursday at 6pm.
More details can be found at http://tslug.truman.edu.
3. Connecting
3.1 Residential Hall Network
The first step to utilizing the computing resources of Truman
State with your Linux box is to get connected to the network.
In most rooms on campus all you need is an Ethernet Card
(provided by yourself) and a patch cable (can be picked up
from MC107). Some rooms in Missouri Hall though will also
require a hub from ITS if you and your roommate(s) both wish
to connect a computer to the network.
After gathering this equipment you will be ready to connect to
the network. Install the network card into your computer and
connect it to the wall jack with the patch cable. Once booted
into Linux, you will need to use netconf to tell Linux to use
the network card.
You want to enter bbrrrccc.truman.edu as the host name + domain=20
where the building code (ie MH for Missouri Hall), the rrr is
your room number, and ccc is your computer number(ie the first=20
computer in the room is 001, the second is 002, etc.). Next
click on Adaptor 1's tab. Enable the adapter by clicking the
check box next to "Enabled." For the config mode you want to
click on the box next to DHCP. This tells Linux to use
Truman's DHCP server to get DNS and IP information. You will
also need to set Net device to eth0 and the kernel module to
the module appropriate to your card. For example the 3COM
390x series cards use the module 3c590 module. Check the
Net-3 HOWTO for more information on this. Once done click
accept and allow Linuxconf to activate the changes.
At a shell propt type:
#ping 150.243.160.1
If your pings are answered, you are on the network.
3.2 DNS
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Your next goal is to get your computer recognized by the rest
of the world as bbrrrccc.truman.edu. To do this you need to
have your DNS entry added to the campus DNS server. This can
be done one of two ways. The first way is to boot into
Windows every so often. The preferred way is to setup WINS on
your Samba server. Do this by making sure the following lines
are in your smb.conf file.
workgroup =3D STUDENT
wins server =3D 150.243.160.xxx
Note: You will need to find the appropriate IP number for the
wins server from a Windows machine using winipcfg or by asking
the ITS help desk as it changes from time to time.
3.3 SMB
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Samba is also useful in accessing your network drives provided
by Truman. To access your "Y" drive you will need to make a
mount point and then mount the network share to this mount
point. The following is an example.
#mkdir ~/ydrive
#smbmount -o username=3Dtrumanid, password=3DNTpassword \
//ss2/trumanid ~/ydrive
For your "Z" or website drive do the following
#mkdir ~/zdrive
#smbmount -o username=3Dtrumanid, password=3DNTpassword \
//gold/trumanid ~/zdrive
Now you can use both network drives as if they were a local
directory.
Printing to network printers can also be done, but remember
that you will still be deducted for the prints you make. Use
your distribution's printtool to add an smb printer.
4. E-mail
4.1 Gold
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Gold is the Truman campus e-mail and web server. You may
telnet to the server directly and retrieve your mail or you
may use a standard mail client to access your mail.
4.2 Fetchmail
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The most popular method for Linux users on campus to retrieve
their mail is to use a program called fetchmail. This program
connects to the mail server and fetches your mail to your own
computer's mail transport agent such as sendmail or postfix.
Your MTA then delivers it to your local mail spool where you
can read it using any standard mail client such as mutt or
pine.
Below is an example .fetchmailrc file that goes in your home
directory.
#.fetchmailrc
set postmaster "localid"
set bouncemail
set properties ""
set daemon 20
poll gold.truman.edu with proto POP3
user trumanid there with password foobar is localid here option
fetc=
hall warnings 3600
After editing this to include your userid and password, place
it in your home directory as .fetchmailrc and run fetchmail.
This will start the fetchmail daemon. You might wish to put
the fetchmail command into your startup scripts.
4.3 Procmail
Procmail is used to process your mail into separate mail boxes
(folders). Most distributions come with procmail already
integrated with sendmail so all you need to do is put a
.procmailrc file in your home directory. Below you will find
mine as an example.
# Ben's Procmail Configuration
PATH=3D/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
MAILDIR=3D$HOME/Mail # all mailboxes are in mail/
LOGFILE=3D$HOME/procmail.log
SHELL=3D/bin/sh
VERBOSE=3Dyes
# Put mail from TSLUG mailing list into mailbox
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* ^(From|Cc|To).*[EMAIL PROTECTED]
TSLUG
# Put mail from LUCI mailing list into mailbox LUCI
:0:
* ^(From|Cc|To).*luci
LUCI
A good place to learn how to make your own .procmailrc file is
http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/.
5. Security
As with any public network, security is an issue on the Truman
network. First let's take a moment to thank Linus and the rest of
the Linux developers for making a relatively secure OS. That said
however, Linux is still vulnerable to DoS and other attacks. Your
best bet is to run a program like portsentry and shut off any
unused protocols in /etc/inetd.conf.
6. Resources
http://www.linuxdoc.org All of the HOWTOS can be found here.
http://tslug.truman.edu
news.truman.edu has a truman.linux news group
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