>> sure you don't want to switch to linux?
>
>Alain: It just so happens that I have my third server
>in the office now. It's a PowerMac 720/120, running
>MacOS 8.x and/or LinuxPPC. It is not currently plugged
>into the hub because, I am told, that the Linux
>installation that took a whole afternoon with several
>professional on-hand has somehow been corrupted. Don't
>ask me for the details though. I am not familiar with
>Linux, nor do I want to be at this time. I am willing,
>however, to plug it in, for you, and provide you with
>its IP address. From there, you are COMPLETELY on your
>own though.
This sounds like an interesting project. Collaborative, remote server
configuration. I've actually spent the last month of my holidays
configuring my Linux machine and it's almost perfect now, so I've learnt
a lot about how to set up a Linux installation. You'd have to ensure
that either telnet or ssh is enabled and that whoever's interested (and
trusted etc) gets an account on it. The only problem will be if we need
the root password, which is pretty common when setting things up, but it
is not a good idea to give out the root password unless the people are
*very* trustworthy (root can do *anything*).
There are a few other issues to discuss if you are serious about doing
this, but I've pretty much run out of things to tweak on my machine and
I'll get very bored around here if I don't find another project. :)
Adrian.
