Mac wrote: > I'm thinking of having a go at setting up a file server and music server > using 8.04 LTS. Being a cautious type, I've been investigating what > might go wrong (forewarned is forearmed!). I came across the comments > below (slighted edited) from someone who's reasonably tech-savvy, and > wondered if folks here could give me some guidance on whether the > comments are true and how much hassle someone new to servers (=me!) > would have with the installation. > > ############ > "On the other hand, I built a Ubuntu server last weekend. Here's a > selection of the things which caused me grief out of the box: > * No CPU power saving enabled > * No fanspeed control installed > * Needed to set noatime to allow discs to spin down (and had to set > discs to spin down!) > * Had to compile a upnp server from source, which took a few goes to > get right > * No automatic updates by default (!!) - had to install and configure > cron-apt > * cron-apt needed a working mail environment so then had to get exim > working , and then smtp auth, etc etc (that took a while) > > I'm sure there was more I'm forgetting, but you get the idea. Now not > all of this is needed for everyone (though I would imagine much of it > is), and of course next time I need to build a box it'll go much > quicker as I know what I'm doing. But I always smile when people who > are clearly very knowledgeable in a field exclaim how it's so easy > anyone could do it - we forget what we're good at!" > ############ > > I don't know whether I need to control CPU speed and fan speed or > install a upnp server (??); but automatic updates and having the discs > spin down seem fairly basic requirements. And it sounds like the guy > above had a lot of hassle to set up automatic updates. > > Any thoughts?? > The "problems" seem about what I would expect for a server install. Spin down disk on a server - no thanks. It's a server and I expect 7x24 service.
If you want a server that behaves like a desktop, install a desktop distro, and add the server bits you want. ymmv -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
