David McNair wrote: > All, > > BTW - should I have the Postfix/ClamAV servers upgraded from Fedora 6 to 9? > Or 8 or 7? Or leave it at 6? > > Either way, browsing Amazon I found a few (what seem to be) decent books on > Fedora 6. Any recommendations for NOOB books on whichever suggested core? > >
..jumping in with a sidelines-suggestion: David, you are asking for advice in what seems like a business environment. Perhaps it would be wise to describe the environment a bit more, before some inappropriate recipe leads you into bad places. You said, as I recall, that you "inherited" the server, and your byline contains "Network Administrator".. 1. Is it correct to infer that in your normal job-duties you inherited the primary responsibility for maintaining a server already in-place, and already functioning? 2. Just what is the purpose of the server? Exactly what services are running? I guess this has already been covered, but was it covered thoroughly? Load and/or traffic may be significant -- the people who are already helping would know more about those details than I do. 3. What is the importance of the server function to business operations? If this is a mission-critical component, the suggestions may be different than if this is a utility function that wouldn't sink the company if it went away for a week. 4. What are the server particulars. Pardon, if this was already covered, but perhaps it would be good to (re-)collect together this info. What is the hardware (generally: for example, chassis-type, cpu, memory, disk, network)? OS? You said Fedora 6 and gave the clam version -- it may be worth noting versions of other services. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
