[Inschool] Bridgman Update

[MPs]

Hello,

I am an employee of Bridgman Public Schools, and this year we installed
and are running a Linux server architecture.

This is our setup:
We have, basicly, three buildings [hs, ms, el]. Each building has its' own
public IP range. Our outgoing connection is provided thru the Berrien
County Intermediate School District [bcisd]. At the hs we have one router
to the bcisd, one to the ms and one to the el, at the ms and el we have
routers connected back to the hs. A very basic set-up, but that is for
next summer.

At the hs we have the main server, the el and the ms have supporting
servers, all three are exactly alike hardware-wise, and all three are
running RedHat 8 [possably 8.1, but I am not at one of those servers to
check]. Each server backs its self up to the other two servers every week.
The hs server runs the mail on a sendmail server. For client access we
are running OpenWebMail, a very nice solution, we havent had any problems
with it.

The one problem I am having is with the Follett Server. The Follett
company provides software for librarys and we are not keen on changing.
With there newest server version they added Linux support. Has anyone else
delt with the Follett Faircom Server for Linux? The server seems to start
just fine, but when I try to shut it down the ctstop [the program that
stops the server] reports that it can not find the server.

I am waiting on another tech to put the server to work [transfer all the
data over from our aged Novell server], so I can't tell if the server is
working or not, but it dosn't seem to kick out any error messages.

 Also, Follett directs that the program be run from the working directory with a
dedicated terminal. If I run it with an absolute path it starts kicking
data into the current working directory. We would really like to have it
start at boot from a script.

Any comments, solutions, rants, raves, etc?

Miles Pschigoda