From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KuGyT-0000jp-IN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:32:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8AE46E0303; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:32:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.psych0tik.net (unknown [115.69.7.62]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0103E0303 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:32:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.173.153] (CPE-61-9-142-180.static.vic.bigpond.net.au [61.9.142.180]) by mail.psych0tik.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7F69D15EC12 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:32:48 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <49051A3E.40107@psych0tik.net> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:32:46 +1100 From: Rich Healey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} An old iBook G3 as server References: <20081023104915.GA20396@revolver> In-Reply-To: <20081023104915.GA20396@revolver> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 41399811-76c6-4faa-92b8-1ca68ed3e78b X-Archives-Hash: 9dbbbaaa402d6bdb25846fadd873ab10 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Momesso Andrea wrote: > I alredy have a gentoo home server up and running with decent hardware > (a FUJITSU SIEMENS Amilo M3438 laptop, Pentium M 1.86GHz, 1.5Gb ram) > that I use for general purpose (backup, portage-rsync, bittorrent, > groupware) and also for my wife's work (a joomla site, a ftp server, > and a mailing list manager). > > The work my wife does as a researcher for the university is growing > fast, her group relays in the ftp server for uploading important > documents, and she also required me to set up a wiki. > > I now think it's time to set up something more "hardened" and to have a > separated box for her work, to reduce the risk that I break things while > trying experimental stuff, masked packeges ecc. > > It comes that they had from their mentor an old iBook G3 to see if it > fits their needs. > > I will recive the machine tonight and start to work on it this weekend, > so yet I don't know the amount of memory it has, but I know for sure > it's expandible to 544Mb, and I will surely do the upgrade if needed. > > Here are my questions: > > - Is gentoo pcc stable enough to work on a server? > > - What kind of checks should I do to verify that the hardware > (expecially the disk) is fine? > > - Is it possible to use the other server (x86) to build packages for the > ppc? > > - Due to my limited space I'd like to mount some non-vital stuff on nfs > shares. Is it aviceable to mount /usp/portage on nfs? or maybe just > the distfiles? > > - What would you suggest for automatic daily backups? > > - I use gentoo as the only os on all my machines and it is the distro I > fell confortable with, but is it really a good choiche in this case? > Would a compiled distro better fit my needs? > > Thank yo in advance for your answers. I run PPC64 in a production environment at work (full 64 bit UL) as a postgres data server (it's SUPER fast, 24 hours of upgrade on our intel quad takes about 4 on the mac). IMHO ppc is fine, but obviously sandbox and test before going live. Kind Regards Rich Healey - -- Richo - - richo@psych0tik.net Developer / Systems Admin - OpenPGP: 0x8C8147807 MSN: bitchohealey@hotmail.com AIM: richohealey33 irc.psych0tik.net -> #hbh #admin ((richohealey)) irc.freenode.org -> #hbh #debian ((PythonNinja)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkFGj4ACgkQLeTfO4yBSAcbZwCeN/PH50/sLUjmO97hbyNx6yUd P7kAn2kOuDYGQ1uHsAaNw9ETgjjPbNKo =Uqtw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----