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On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 07:45:23AM +0200, Nic le Roux wrote: |
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> Thanks Ralph. |
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> It, will however be a requirement to put the modem on the E450. |
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> Because of the way Nagios generates the sms's and as a means of removing |
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> another point of failure I have to put it on the E450. |
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> Guaranteeing the delivery of the sms is of utmost importance. |
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> Is there complications in getting it set up on the Sparc machine itself ? |
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If I remind correctly the E450 has 2 serial ports, but they look like PC |
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Parports. If you want to connect a modem, you have to use |
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adapters.(gender changers at least) |
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If you do not have a Grafics card installed (we usually don't have) you |
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will need a console (or zero-modem cable and minicom) to setup the |
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system. If you follow the documentation correctly you should not |
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encounter any problems. |
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> |
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> Are there changes in the Apache config made as a requirement of it being on |
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> the E450 ? |
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> Something in the list that I left out was postfix, using a smarthost on the |
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> network to deliver mail. |
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Your default Apache settings should play well, but be aware that if you |
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can't distribute you load to several cpu's (more threads/processes) E450 |
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performance will suck. |
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> |
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> On that note is the Sparc distribution very stable ? |
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This might bring up discussions but here my opinion: |
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2.4 Linux and stable libs --> very stable |
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2.6 Linux and stable libs --> quite stable but I would not bet on it |
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If you ever need a ~sparc flags to get the versions you need use it |
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careful, only mark the specific package in /etc/portage/package.keywords |
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and newer use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~sparc" emerge foo_bar. |
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If it doesn't need to be linux I would suggest you try opensolaris. |
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It is free, has solid rock stability on sparc and you can install gnu |
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tools to compile/run gnu software.(At least Apache and Postfix runs well |
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on opensolaris) |
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regards klaus |
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