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Hmm.. but if you did is as the user then the previous user would have deleted their own settings when they logged out anyway. I'm a bit old fashoined. I think allowing someone to delete someone elses stuff is fundamentally wrong. I know if my settings were deleted by someone else I'd be really miffed. I know I might sound a bit picky but this seems to be an accident waiting to happen. If you really want to do it, I thought it's like this:- ALL ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /path/to/your/script.sh YMMV having never done it - test with care :-) Mal

Can I ask, what are you trying to delete ? Mal

All our Linux machines ( 350 + ) do their logins via a LDAP server so we can hot desk

We are GNU/Linux for students and if I have my way eventually everywhere, but it isn't easy. Technically it's fairly straightforward, Linux is more robust, easier to support, quicker and a lot easier once you have go the hang of it. The difficult bit is the people! In a way I admire MS they have done an excellent mind job. If you went Linux you will have conversations like this :- 'Windows crashed - it must be something I did' 'Windows crashed - it must be my machine' 'Windows crashed - it must be something the IT guys did' 'Windows crashed - it must be the Internet' 'Linux crashed - Linux sucks'. For us, we spend roughly four times as long supporting 160 Windows machines as 500 Linux ones.

Some years ago I vaguely remember that the 'here today and gone tomorrow' politician of the day decreed that all schools should have a VLE. Ignoring the fact that they can be quite useful, do we actually have to have one ? Ta M

For want of a better place to post this... I was wondering if other schools have reliability targets for systems. i.e. percent uptime of the core systems, number of failed PC's etc and if so what do people expect ? Ta M

I got the user and group mapping to openldap ( ie rfc2307bis - openSUSE ) to work quite well but it was a nightmare. I can send you what worked for me if you want. We only do Linux here so if it's AD then I'm lost too M

We have tried ownCloud and we have never got the document preview/edit to work that well. Even though we are a LibreOffice place the documents often don't display correctly in ownCloud M

We have been looking for a server that would allow students to hand in work electronically. At the moment we have a moodle box with everything removed except assignments and it's fine but it strikes us a massive overkill. Has anyone got any suggestions Ta M

Has anyone seen the situation where you run a report on SIMS which fails with odd message about 'instance' that continues to eat workstation memory even after it's stopped ? Ta M

I was wondering if anyone has gone the 'whole hog' so to speak ! Servers and Clients M

What sort of school are you and distro do you use? Ta M

Does anyone know how many schools in the UK use Linux ? :-)

Hmm... Removed 11.whatever and put on 10.7 and it works fine Thanks M

This is probably a really dumb question but I have just put windows 7 on a machine with a smartboard and the pens don't write they select - is there a howto for windows 7 somewhere .... Ta M