Re: Advice needed about mail and web server with Linux on an Alpha
From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/07/04
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Date: 7 Sep 2004 16:18:23 GMT
On 7 Sep 2004 08:59:31 -0700, Antonio staggered into the Black Sun and
said:
> There is an old Alpha lying around, in good shape except for the tape
> unit, which doesn't work. I suggested my boss we could use it as our
> mail and web server, with sendmail and apache. My experience with
> Linux is limited to Redhat, so I have chosen Redhat 7.2.
Redhat in general is more trouble than it's worth, and Redhat 7.2 is
ancient. Get something more recent--Debian works on the Alpha, and
Gentoo should too.
> Which partitioning scheme should I use? This machine has 4 SCSI disks:
> 1.6, 2.0, 8.0 and 8.0 GB. Those two 8GB disks are very tempting for a
> RAID setup, but I'm not familiar with RAID and Alpha architecture
You can use software RAID-1 for your / and almost everywhere else, just
build software RAID support, support for your SCSI card, support for
SCSI, support for SCSI disks, and support for / on a RAID directly into
your kernel. Your /boot may have to be on a non-RAID volume since
aboot/SRM doesn't grok RAID AFAIK.
> It seems that RH72 for Alpha is no longer updated. Is it worth the
> hassle of downloading, compiling, and installing the latest versions
> of sendmail and apache?
No. Get a more recent distro that has decent dependency tracking
(Gentoo, Debian) and do "emerge sync && emerge -U world" or "apt-get
dist-update && apt-get dist-upgrade" or something similar.
> Is it worth a kernel upgrade to the 2.6 series?
Depends on what you want to do. I don't see any real benefit on my
machines, but YMMV.
> I've read several documents about sendmail, but I'm still extremely
> confused about its configuration. How should I configure it in order
> to replace our current ISP server?
Install postfix, read its sample configuration files (they're about 60%
helpful comments), edit them in your favorite text editor, start
postfix. sendmail is really annoying and arcane even with m4, so use
something that's easier to configure unless you have some problem that
only sendmail can handle.
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