New 4.0 install

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Kawika
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New 4.0 install

Post by Kawika » 2005/05/25 18:36:56

Running on a 1.7GHz P4 with 256MB RAM and 20GB HD. Running Apache2, PHP4, and Qmail (loaded from qmail toaster). So far so good.

Since I did a Server minimum install I ran into a bunch of dependencies when I tried to load Qmail but overall it was very smooth.

One issue that's been a burning problem for years is libmcrypt with PHP. I found a sourceforge project that addresses that issue, finally!

[url=http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=112092&package_id=149424&release_id=319181]Project Link[/url]

I'll let it burn in for a couple weeks and if all looks good I'll Upgrade from RH9 to CentOS on all 6 of my servers.

Thanks for the great work and I'll report back on my stability and load testing.

cormander
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New 4.0 install

Post by cormander » 2005/05/25 18:51:55

Also might want to check atmoic turtle's line of RPMs. Currently only does 3ES, as far as enterprise goes, but here they are:

http://atomicrocketturtle.com/atomic/atomic/3ES/RPMS/

He always builds the newest version of things, which isn't exactly in line with the purpose of enterprise, but they're good package none-the-less. Been using his RPMs for about a year.

Kawika
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Re: New 4.0 install

Post by Kawika » 2005/06/14 18:37:36

Loaded 4.0 on a Tyan S2505T dual P3 with 1GB RAM and a 3ware 6800 IDE RAID controller with 6x WD40GB drives setup as 2x RAID 1 (system) and 4x RAID10 (database). I ran into a couple issues all of which have answers online so I won't elaborate extensively.

The main problems I found is that 3dm software to monitor the RAID controller generates a constant error in /var/log/messages saying that it's down rev. There's no way around this for 6000 series 3ware cards. Also, I had to run restorecon on several modules to prevent boot errors.

Been running for 4 days with no critical problems. I really like being able to use RPMs. All of this lowers admin costs which is good for us small businesses. I'm going to build a Qmail server and a backup server next month.

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