Subject: RE: Disappearing files.....[long, new case/infos]
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Date: Wed Dec 06 2000 - 00:40:32 EST
BWS - Offwhite <brennan@offwhite.net> said:
> There is still another route to consider. These machines may have a
> security hole which has been compromized. Since nothing else seems to
> explain it away this could be the case.
>
Been there, even changed the passwords and monitored the firewall. Everything
is cool. I also made sure the simple stuff was checked. Everyone is in the
appropriate group, all files and directories within the shared volume have the
correct group permissions.
I'm still not inclined to think that it could be the servers OS. The server
does nothing except Netatalk and mirror the live webserver. DNS, Sendmail,
ODBC, PHP, Apache. It's a very clean install that sees nothing but web
requests, private DNS queries, and afpd.
The rest of this message may be considered 'off topic' by some.
DAve
> I do not mean to bash Linux because I know at times Linux can be a better
> choice than FreeBSD, but I just do not trust Linux. My experiences with
> Caldera, SuSE and RedHat were all bad and I gave them all a fair shake. I
> actually purchased a copy of each to support the cause, then I reverted
> back to FreeBSD and have bought several CD sets already.
>
You're preaching to the choir here ;^) I prefer FreeBSD myself but do to the
fact I could not get Apache and Openlink to properly compile with support for
multithreading, I had to switch to Linux. (this netatalk is on our development
box running the dev web server)
> FreeBSD may not have the nice tools for setting up a GUI interface and it
> may require a bit of learning to start, but I find that in the long run my
> sys admin duties are much less time consuming. I also find it performs
> much better as a server. (your experiences may be different)
>
GUI? I have better use for that diskspace than XFree ;^) It's a server!!
While there is a monitor on it I've never used it since I installed the
netatalk package. SSH is the only way into my boxes, telnet, rsh, etc have
been removed with great predjudice.
> And after 2 years of trying 3 major Linux distros and several versions of
> FreeBSD I have to say I would have to recommend using FreeBSD for server
> applications. But then again, I have always heard the attitude Debian
> developers have tends to be closer to that of the FreeBSD developers. If
> you are to stay with Linux, Debian may be a solid choice. They seem to
> choose stability over features. The other distros have become feature
> happy, which is fine for a workstation.
>
I've had best luck with Slackware when I have to use Linux. Very clean with
minimal bells and whistles, BSD filesystem.
> As a Sys Admin, my most valued feature is stability. And I write this on
> a FreeBSD server which has been up for 287 days in a row with Netatalk
> running since day 1, no problems.
Nodding in agreement, as I write this in Twig, on my FBSD server, through my
FBSD fi
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