Re: Samba LDAP

2007-12-13 Thread tdonnelly 
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 01:32:07PM -0600, Thomas Donnelly wrote:
>> I have been watching the DragonFlyBSD project for a few months now and
>> so
>> far it seems very promising. We are looking at doing a 2 server setup of
>> samba and ldap as a cluster/redundant pair. After looking around, it
>> seemed
>> that DragonFlyBSD would be a good choice.
>
> After using such a setup for over 2 years -- avoid it if you can. The
> LDAP part I mean.
>
> Joerg
>
Just out of curiousity, why? I think it would be nice being that our
firewall interfaces with it. What are the major drawbacks of this system?

Re: Samba LDAP

2007-12-13 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger 
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 01:32:07PM -0600, Thomas Donnelly wrote:
> I have been watching the DragonFlyBSD project for a few months now and so 
> far it seems very promising. We are looking at doing a 2 server setup of 
> samba and ldap as a cluster/redundant pair. After looking around, it seemed 
> that DragonFlyBSD would be a good choice.

After using such a setup for over 2 years -- avoid it if you can. The
LDAP part I mean.

Joerg

Re: Fetch pkgsrc index with pkg_search

2007-12-13 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger 
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 05:19:27PM +0100, Matthias Schmidt wrote:
> Thanks, I wasn't aware of this file.  The file is not very parser
> friendly, compared with the INDEX file :)

Huh? That file is easy to process with awk(1), that makes it by
definition parser friendly :-)

Joerg