Well, OpenBSD is usually the most solid of web servers. But its a bit archaic looking. I really do love mandrake, though. For packaging, the first thing you do is set up your urpmi database. First, find a webserver that has a mandrake mirror. Then, find its rpms. An example is ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ . Then find its hdlist.cz file, the file that contains the listing and info for the rpm files. Its almost always ../base/hdlist.cz. On some servers, you'll have a Mandrake/RPMS2, which should be connected to ../base/hdlist2.cz. Videl seems to be set up a little non-standard about this. CD 2 is ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS/ and so the relative path to hdlist2.cz is ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz , which is kind of a hassle. But basically, if you want to add videl to your list, do a
urpmi.addmedia Videl1 \ ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/\ with ../base/hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia Videl2 \ ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS/\ with ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz Now you have Videl1 as an official mandrake package source, and Videl2 as a contrib package source. Every now and then (every day for cooker sources), do an "urpmi.update --auto", and that'll redownload the lists. If you want to upgrade every package, do "urpmi --auto-select". Otherwise just do "urpmi package-name". It doesn't care whether you put the version, etc, unless you want a specific version. If you use zsh (and you should), then you get tab completion with urpmi. If you type "urpmi XF<tab>", it gives you a list of all the XFree86 stuff along with XFDrake (Or something like that). If you accidentally add a slow mirror, you can either comment it out of the file (something like /etc/urpmi/sources.list), or go into the software sources manager and uncheck it. No need to delete it entirely, it might be useful someday. -Eric Hattemer On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 19:51, eXt wrote: > 1- Is Suse 8.1 or the latest Slackware in the Videl server? > > 2- If not, can someone tell me a good d/l mirror? ( i tried 5 last > night but the dl speed was 5-10 K) > > 3- Anyone knows if mandrake 9 installs iptables by default? if not, > what do i need to do to get them and install them? > > 4- What is the "best" distro for a "Commercial web-server" (i know > mandrake is newbie friendly...but i'm having more headaches trying to > install stuff on it because of this) > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com > The most personalized portal on the Web! -- Eric Hattemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
