On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Scott St. John wrote: > I think I will try this script, THANK YOU. The biggest problem, which I > think we > have all talked about is that BSDi starts at userid 100. I think I can > modify the > script to redo the userid count.
Then you will also need to chown the files too. (When I did it, I just used the Linux system UIDs below 100 and the BSD regular users 100 and above.) Also, be sure to copy over your groups file and hand merge. > I have BSDi for DNS, Radius, Sendmail, FTP and Web. I put up a Mandrake > 8.2 box > this summer on an IBM Netfinity Server and while the speed is impressive, > the fact > I have to kick it every few days is not. Cron jobs stop running with no > mention in the > log files, ftp shuts down, etc. I tried Red Hat 7.3 for a new mail server, > but as > mentioned here yesterday it failed. That is not good. Since you don't know what the problem is: it could be hardware related with kernel and the issues could continue under Debian. Or it could be that version of cron or ftpd, or ... > >But what are the "performance" issues you have found? > > By performance I mean a couple of things. Time to deliver mail, time to > query a database, > time to dynamically create a web page, ftp transfer speed, etc. I am not sure how that will change much with a simple OS change. > >(By the way, if you are already a BSD administrator, it is easy to move > >from BSD/OS to NetBSD or FreeBSD). > > I had also considered that, but FreeBSD does not support my hardware (IBM > ServerRAID2). I do see that some *BSDs support its AIC-7880, but I don't know if that ServeRAID is supported. I do see that IBM has downloads for a few Linux distributions that may (should) work with Debian. Jeremy C. Reed http://www.isp-faq.com/
