On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Nic le Roux wrote:

> Thanks Ralph.
>
> It, will however be a requirement to put the modem on the E450.
> Because of the way Nagios generates the sms's and as a means of removing
> another point of failure I have to put it on the E450.
> Guaranteeing the delivery of the sms is of utmost importance.
> Is there complications in getting it set up on the Sparc machine itself ?
>

I shouldn't think so. I've used serial applications on SPARC Linux in the 
past without issue. Can't imagine the modem would be much harder.

> Are there changes in the Apache config made as a requirement of it being on
> the E450 ?

No. Apache is Apache is Apache. The hardware platform is irrelevant.

> Something in the list that I left out was postfix, using a smarthost on the
> network to deliver mail.
>

I've used Postfix on SPARC Linux. In fact, it's installed on my machine, 
though I don't use it much with my current setup.

> On that note is the Sparc distribution very stable ?
>

I run ~sparc without problems on three different machines.

Ric

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