Sun or SuperMicro: Which to choose

Hi, I'm not used to use Linux with new hardware :-) But todays new server hardware is so cheap that i'm gonna buy something. My budget is around 1500 euros and I want a 1u high Opteron 175 dual core server system with 2gb mem and 2 x 180 GB disks. IPMI is a an nice extra but not a reason to go ove

Re: Recommended Firewalls

You can try Shorewall, that's console based and if you've setup webmin you can also manage it using a webinterface. If you are more in to colors you can have fwbuilder... It's a gui based firewall configurator that compiles shellscripts that setup iptables. Nice thing about fwbuilder is that you

Re: Recommended Firewalls

rking completely. I think that may have been because I wasn't using a > java browser to talk to it then. Thanks much for these firewall > suggestions. > > > > On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Bart van den Heuvel wrote: > >> You can try Shorewall, that's console based and if y

Re: Dovecot pop3

Hi, pop3 is your server for message storage and reading your mail while smtp is for sending and delivering... Check that you configured your smtp server correctly and that your mailclient is pointing to it. Gr, Bart > Hello > > I recently installed dovecot to provide pop3 and imap for sendm

Re: Sun or SuperMicro: Which to choose

Does anybody have something to say about this? Maybe only the chipsets which one is faster/better the ServerWorks ht1000 of the nForce4? (reading my own mail i figure that it might be read as a spamming commercial, IT IS NOT!) Gr, Bart > Hi, > > I'm not used to use Linux with new hardware :-)

Re: taking image of disk and clonning it

Hi, I had mixed results with Mondo. http://www.mondorescue.org It will create a bootable iso, dvd/cdrom or tape archive of your system. You can select parts of your system also. The speed is ok, but i don't have much to compare... If you have a plain install (stock kernel, no lvm) you might have

Re: Multiple PC's for one user?

I guess this is all up to you... The debian systems I use all more or less depend on each other. I've got one DB instance, One SMTP mail instance, One IMAP mail instance, gameservers, One central system that runs Cron over the network. These services are all shared/used by other machines over the

sending sms (scripts and modems)

Hi! How can i send a sms text message using debian, a pstn phoneline. I'd use it for sending monitoring Alerts from nagios and maybe other apps. this means that any option must be script friendly and stabil. this also makes me unsure of using free internet based sms-ing. i guess a smell fee per m