Hello,
It looks like I keep my job for another 3 months.
A couple of weeks ago I brought an old 486 to work. I bought
RedHat 5.1 and installed it. I downloaded an installed Msql and
mysql (installations went just like the docs said they would). It has
been up every day since then (about 12 days without a reboot). I
started Xwindows and opened about 5 netscapes to give it
something to do. My boss has a few telnet windows open to some
of our internet servers with tail -f running on various log files.
I am setting up the intranet there. I have to wait on our
accountant/is manager to develop the database (I have just
assumed and went on to get something running). He would like
everything to run on the NT which he loves. Not.
I have to get samba running so I can use it for a file server. I wonder
if our mac users can use the linux as a file server. As it is now
there is some problem for mac users on the NT.
Anyhow, my big question is if I can use this linux as a mail
machine?
I can use the mail command from the command line or a cgi to
send email to the internet. The machine is connected via ethernet
to the NT which is the gateway to the internet. But I cannot get
sendmail to work. I wonder why not? If someone tells me that I
should be able to get it to work when the machine only has an IP
number then I will just look in the books.
I think this is a really interesting setup. I would sell the computer
that is running linux for US$400 in a heartbeat. The software cost
me just US$45 with tax. You really have to wonder why more
people don't use linux.
PS, I tried to install the windows personal webserver and any
otherserver and I was able to only get it to serve static pages.
Every installation resulted in buckets of all sorts of help files etc.
Everything was gui. I could never get a cgi to work properly. Even
the asp would not work after intallation. Unix/linux was so much
simpler.
I also installed FilemakerPro and got it working (comes with
webserver with cgi built in). I like that rdbms much better than
access. It was also very simple to get running (very, very simple).
And getting the web/database working was a little trouble but I got
it working in about 20% of the time before I gave up on the windows
solution.
Peter
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