Technomancer wrote:
I'm building 2 Gentoo servers at work. One of them will run a
Postfix+Mysql+Courier Imap system and the other will be a LAMP
machine. They both will run on a mid-end corporate environment.
Using Portage I coul add and remove features of programs like Postfix
without making some ugly workaround.
Some people keep telling me that I'm mad and Gentoo is a poor choice
for servers. I don't agree with that.
I wish to hear sugestions and advices about Gentoo Servers, how could
I maintain the system up to date without breaking etc etc.
Ran pretty much the same setup for the same reasons for 3+ years on
Gentoo and had no problems. I did eventually scrap the original virtual
mail system to do a major hardware and software upgrade. I could have
done the software in place, but decided that upgrading to a 2.6 kernel,
Mysql 4.1, Apache 2.0, and Postfix 2.2 all at once was probably better
done on a fresh box and would require less late nights during the
switchover.
With two servers in a corporate setting I'd skip any advanced package
stuff. Do the glsa checks and don't upgrade anything without testing on
your desktop/personal webserver. Also keep an eye on the forums for the
things you're running. When you've answered a few hundred questions
about Postfix and virtual mail you're much less likely to be caught off
guard by any package changes. :-)
kashani
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