Adam, I'll second the advice to move away from OS9 on your swiki server. We ran one on 9 for about a year, but performance was lackluster, especially if it got any sort of load. Crashes were frequent. Finally I got someone to ante up $500 to build a basic Linux box, threw Mandrake Linux on it (pretty painless) and installed Swiki. Apache runs on port 80 as a sort of front door home page, with links that point to port 8080 for the swiki pages. Apache also serves up any big text documents & images I don't want to put into swiki. The only downtime we've had was when the machine needed to be physically moved to a new location. I imagine all of this could be done in OSX. If you manage to get swiki running under OSX I love to a short page on your swiki describing how you went about the install and setup, to prevent reinventing the wheel at some future point.
Dan On Monday, September 23, 2002, at 12:02 PM, Adam C. Engst wrote: >> Now that I think back to it, I remember having some problems with >> older >> MacOSs. I recommend upgrading your machine. The UNIX networking >> is much better. We had a Mac server that was getting heavily used and >> went down often. After the upgrade to X, it was better. > > Yeah, that's likely to happen now that there are drivers for the > Lucent WaveLAN PC Card I have in that PowerBook. I'm tired of this > type of flakiness under Mac OS 9. > > cheers... -Adam > > -- > Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Publisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > XNS: =Adam Engst= <http://www.tidbits.com/> > > Dan Ringrose, Department of History 01.701.858.3037 Minot State University, Minot ND 58707 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
