RE: Explaining Linux

["Paul Sims" <nospam [at] lombard.co.uk>]

what goes around comes around - I used to work for Fretties. Nice to see they've embraced the Penguin.

On Tuesday, February 29, 2000 3:32 PM, David Mitchell [SMTP:davem [at] fdgroup.co.uk] wrote:
> > A SIMPLE linux server is easier and quicker to set up than NT.
> 
> On one of the projects I'm involved in, we had to set up approx
> 20 linux proxy servers/firewall/DCHP server/NAT etc boxes to go
> at various sites around Sheffield. I hadn't used Linux properly before,
> although I've been using Solaris for several years. It took me about a week
> to learn how to do the install properly and set up all the stuff
> like Squid, Apache, DHCP server and so on, beef up security, and all the
> miscellanea required for a box that is going to be left unattended for
> months or years at a time (eg log rotation).
> By the end of that week, I had a master disk which we just ghosted onto
> the 19 other disks, then ran a simple configuration perl script on each
> machine that asks for just an IP address and hostname, and bingo we have 20
> servers. If one of them dies, we just clone another disk, rerun the Perl
> script, and off we go again.
> 
> Admittedly we require each machine to have similar hardware, but even so,
> I was very pleased how simple (and reliable!) it all turned out to be.
> 
> 
> * Dave Mitchell, Operations Manager,
> * Fretwell-Downing Facilities Ltd, UK.  Dave.Mitchell [at] fdgroup.com
> * Tel: +44 114 281 6113.                The usual disclaimers....
> *
> * Standards (n). Battle insignia or tribal totems
> 
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