Installing LTSP on openSUSE

Please see http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP for installing LTSP5 on openSUSE.

Instructions to get earlier version of LTSP here:

Novell has good documentation online at: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/nnlsmag/features/a_ltsp_on_sles9_nls.html

On Suse 9.2, I needed to add the -r parameter to the syslog script in /etc/rc.d, so that syslog will get the logs sent from the remote clients. Otherwise it gave an error on the client linux boot.

-- BrianRead - 28 Dec 2004

If you have information about issues related to installing LTSP on Suse, please edit this page and add your notes.

Activating DHCP Server on Suse 9.1

I had an issue with the DHCP server, which never showed up as running in the ltspcfg menu. Even though the DHCP server appeared to be functionIng, I noticed in the log file that it wasn't configured to listen on any interface. I had to manually configure the appropriate network interface. There are two ways of configuring the appropriate interface:

Use a text editor to edit the file /etc/sysconfig/dhcpd:
Change the value of DHCPD_INTERFACE="xyz" where xyz is your network interface (i.e. eth0)

Or

Use YaST:
System --> Edit /etc/sysconfig files --> Select Network > DHCP > DHCP Server > DHCPD_INTERFACE and choose the appropriate interface.

After this restart your DHCP Server:
/etc/init.d/dhcpd restart

Now the DHCP Server should be running and visible in the ltspcfg menu.

NOTE
This error apparently only occurs when an older network card is being used. I am using a 3com 905C-TX/TX-M (Tornado) NIC.
-- PhilippAffolter - 13 Apr 2005

Using Syslog-ng

Does anyone have any idea how the use of syslog-ng will affect this? I switched to syslog-ng so that I could receive logs from my router and make them go into their own log file, rather than merge with the server's logs.