input needed on Debian

[Gary <Gary]

Hi Ken,

On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 08:53:10 -0800 UTC (12/21/2003, 10:53 AM -0600 UTC my
time), Ken Moffat wrote:

K> Have you received a reply from support? (just curious what they had to
K> say.)

Nothing yet Ken, but it is the weekend, so I did not expect much.

>>> I have a small home server which has run for about 2 years (NOT
>>> without reboot!) without any problems on Libranet. I run apache,
>>> postfix, squirrelmail, samba, mysql, using a dsl static ip.  Just a
>>> small website and home network, but no crashes, no problems. I also
>>> use the box for a desktop.

>> That is exactly what I have at home also, right down to the static IP,
>> except I use qmail and djbdns programs respectively, as well as IMAPS

K> Ah, I forgot to mention uw-imap and bind are running here also. All this 
K> stuff doesn't get much use. I'm mostly curious and learning about it.

I also have a remote mail/DNS server, and in fact my a and MX records point
there. So the fun part about IMAP is that I  store mail on it, and / or
drag-N-drop it to my home IMAP server too. Great fun <g>

K> It's a tinker-toy, you know.

hee, hee.. always has been for me <g>

K> I have an athlon 1.4 gig, only 256megs memory, and it runs fine.

I am running just an 1 gig athlon thunderbird.. with 512 memory. Am looking
into upgrading to the AMD 64.. as that is the future. It will take time
though.

K> Having everything on one machine is a bit stressing, and I've considered
K> moving at least the web server to another. There is a bit of a loss of
K> quickness when opening programs. ps -e output is quite long. Still, it
K> works...

I would think the Mysql database really takes up memory.. they are hogs.  I
have 3 OS on 2 HDs, still have RH 7.3, SUSE, and W2K which I use for storage
only <g> ... as it should be.  At one time, I also had Progeny Debian on
there too, so 4 distros.. <g> Grub handles it easily.  These Linux systems
can just about handle anything, it amazes me sometimes, as with all you are
running.

K> Enjoy.

Thanks <g>  I just may purchase Libranet in any event, even if I don't hear
back from them, just to get back into Debian, and play with it... see what I
can build on it, etc..

--
Gary

If at first you don't succeed, try management.