>  > 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

Thanks Ric,

That Pretty much does it.
Will start the adventure tomorrow.
Thanks again to all, though I'm sure this wont be the last you hear of me
:-)

Regards
Nic

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