On Tuesday 07 March 2006 03:23, Scott Fitzgerald wrote: > Instead of buying a commercian "muscle box" I think it would be more > fun to instead link two pc's to serve one user, namely, myself. > Thinking about this, I wanted to contact the group. > > Has anybody else done this? I would like to know so I could just > follow in the footsteps of somebody who has experience. > > I would really like to have the repetitive and daemon like jobs run > on the computer without the keyboard/screen/mouse. I wonder though > because in debian exim and cron are in the "base system." Can a > Debian system be run without these? Email in particular, is there a > setting where I can tell the "lighter" system to use the SMTP server > of the "heavier" system as a default, or do I need to run a lighter > SMTP daemon or do I need to program exim for this somehow? > > Can simpler and less secure things like telnet be configured to work > only within the LAN? I know how to invoke SSH but is seems overkill > for logging into a box next to the "lighter" box. any thoughts? > > Thanks, > --- > Scotty
The fun factor aside :-) using multiple boxes uses , and imho, wastes resources, multiple power supplies..etc. I went the other way, a smp box , and run all local lan services/apps from there. I do run Vmware and dual monitors, lots of virtual installs. You could substitute a Free virtualization app for vmware. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
