"Craig" == Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Craig> 2. try out the debian sparc port. i can only do this, Craig> however, if it's reasonably stable (i.e it doesn't crash Craig> randomly - crashing if i do stupid things is sort of ok).
It is stable. My SS20 was was up about a month before I took it down to install the teardrop patch. This is with 2.0.27 and 1500 users, of which theres usually 30 logged in and using pine during the day. Craig> machine on site so i can experiment with porting the web server Craig> machines (3 sparc/solaris boxes running netscape server) to Craig> debian and apache. I don't know if Netscape makes a sparclinux version of their server, but I know Apache 1.2 and 1.3a work fine with it -- if you link with libc5. A problem with libc6 prevents it from working at the moment. Craig> of primary importance, though, is the radius server. is Craig> debian/sparc stable enough to run this - is it stable enough to Craig> run an ISPs main authentication server on? I've had no problems running radiusd-merit. Craig> if it is, my second question is: is it stable enough to take a Craig> bit of light experimentation with apache (including bringing Craig> ip_alias interfaces up and down for virtual hosts) as well? Yes if you compile the ip_alias support in -- I've had an intermittent problem getting it to load as a module. Also the later 2.1.x kernels work fine if aliasing is not enabled, otherwise it crashes within 3 days max. But 2.0.27 can run 55 aliases indefinitely, it seems. :-) Craig> debian onto a sparc2 box? can debian install itself onto a Craig> sparc or should i buy a copy of redhat first, and then convert Debian will install -- I did the NFS install from hamm/disks-sparc, then used a boot disk to silo the kernel into place. --------------------- PGP E4 70 6E 59 80 6A F5 78 63 32 BC FB 7A 08 53 4C __ _ Debian GNU Johnie Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mm mm / /(_)_ __ _ ___ __ "netgod" irc.debian.org mm mm / / | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / m m m / /__| | | | | |_| |> < Those who do not understand UNIX mm mm \____/_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\ are doomed to repeat it, poorly. GO BLUE -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
