Matthew Smith wrote:
Quoth Rod Whitworth at 2008-04-09 08:04...
Matthew, you are pretty new here so I'll be kind.
Read http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Why
For this, I apologise. I am currently in the situation that I don't
know where to look for what. I might try writing a "OpenBSD for Linux
escapees" somewhere down the track, because that's what I really need.
Also Search The Fine Archives
I now discover that they are under a different domain - which is why
the site search wasn't pulling up much. I must pull out my copy of
'Google Hacks' and see if there is a way that an aggregated site
search can be done that pulls in the list archives as well.
the Marc archives have really been a savior for me
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&r=1&w=2 they have a long history of
openbsd list archives and the searches are blazing fast.
HTH
Aaron
The GENERIC kernel has been compiled with all the right flags. The
article you cite was never good advice and furthermore it is going on 8
years old.
It's going to take me a while to get used to having a kernel that I
don't HAVE to touch - not that I'm complaining!
Don't do that either without a better reason. Postfix, for example,
comes as a package in OpenBSD. Two versions (stable and snapshot, both
good enough to use in critical service) and several flavours. Look at
http://openports.se/mail/postfix/snapshot for a clue.
Postfix I can probably take from a package. However, this server will
need to duplicate the environment on my two Internet-facing Linodes
(Linux virtual servers), plus my laptop, which is my main development
platform.
Apache and MySQL have to be hand-builds - my Apache installation is
configured for a very specific environment (and all my apps would
break if chrooted) and I have applications that rely on specific
Apache modules. MySQL - well - I use 5.1 and that's not a production
release, but has features that I need in my development environment.
I'll probably get yelled at now, having entered a security
conscious|paranoid community, but it would take MONTHS to change my
environment and re-code everything to work otherwise. It is also a
bit of a non-issue as regards this server - it's on an intranet with
one user that logs in - me.
From the land "down under": Australia.
Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over?
No, but when I first came here, I was fascinated by the way water goes
down the plughole the other way round.
Thanks all for your replies and patience.
Cheers
M
