Blog Entry

Blogging has not been my highest priority in the past week - however the reason behind this is I have been working on a number of internal projects, therefore time has been invested heavily in completing them within the time I allotted myself.

However, in keeping with my aim to document as much as possible, I have written what I hope is a comprehensive guide to setting up a local repository mirror for OpenSuSE 10.3 and posted it on the SDB website.

You'll find the document over at:
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Setting_up_a_local_repo...

I've just asked one of the very capable service professionals on the team to translate this into German so I'm sure it will be available on that section of the SDB soon.

When OpenSuSE was released to the public, we installed native language versions onto our test PC's to ensure we were in a position to deliver support for the new version straight away. Now that OpenSuSE 10.3 is installed on our corporate machines and I'm finished with all the preparation that upgrading brings, I am looking forward to the next few projects I need to undertake.

They include:
finishing the configuration of my server at home. At the moment, this is running OpenSuSE 10.3, fetchmail, postfix, courier, procmail and squirrelmail and it's quite happily taking care of all my mail needs. However, like any private project, it's never going to be finished. I'm looking at adding some more customized logging to minimize the amount of disk read writes it is currently undertaking. I also need to work on the SMTP relaying side of the configuration so I'll continue to keep myself busy with this.

Back at work, I will shortly begin to give more of the network administration tasks to one of the OpenSuSE machines here. It will be charged with the responsibility of assigning IP addresses via DHCP, filtering incoming and outgoing traffic using a firewall that I've yet to pick and finally filter and monitor web traffic using the squid proxy.