Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 04:39:38 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Brandon L. Newport" <bln@nc.prestige.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need Assistance ASAP -- PLEASE Message-ID: <14928.24170.647300.294253@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <37261713@toto.iv>
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Brandon L. Newport <bln@nc.prestige.net> types: > Here is what he wants: (These are the things that have to up and running = > by next weekend or I will be force to use Linux or NT) Well, the general solution is to use the ports. They are the slickest thing I've seen for installing new software, on any platform. If you've got recent CDs, you can look for precompiled packages there as well. > file and print shares ( I dont know samba real good.....yet) Well, samba is samba. You'll have to learn it whether you're going to use FreeBSD or Linux. It's in /usr/ports/net/samba if you can't find the package. > dialout internet connectivity so that when other machines want to go to = > internet it auto dials performs NAT and acts as the firewall (I know = > this is not real secure but it will be a temporary fix) Look at the ppp man page, the files in /usr/share/examples/ppp, and the configuration in /etc/ppp. Oh yeah, set: ppp_enable="YES" ppp_mode="auto" ppp_nat="YES" gateway_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf. There are other ppp things to set; you'll have to decide what they should be. See /etc/defaults/rc.conf for details. > somehow to fetch email from his ISP accounts for all employees and = > download it locally to the server Install the fetchmail port or package; that does that job nicely. However, you might consider not bothering - just let them keep on using the ISP for all their email. When you get a domain set up (I'm assuming that you're going to), run a mail server and an imap server, and don't bother with the ISPs mail. > IMAP so he can check mail for any machine There are a couple of imap servers in /usr/ports/mail. > auto backups using the CD-RW You didn't say whether your CDRW was SCSI or IDE. If it's SCSI, you'll need the cdrecord port; for IDE you use burncd in the base system. You'll also want the mkisofs port to build iso file system images. Both ports are in /usr/ports/sysutils. I've got some configurable scripts that assume you have a local disk to use for backups that automatically dump the weekly backups to CD. I could let you have copies of those. > auto updates of OS If you're talking about unattended updates, I wouldn't recommend that for FreeBSD. Unlike Linux systems, the OS and binaries tightly integrated, including the system configuration files. The changes to those need to be merged in by hand. While you could probably get away with not doing so for quite a while (because changes are designed where possible to not bite people who don't do that), it would almost certainly eventually cause you problems. If you want a script that you can run to do it, it's simple: #!/bin/sh cd /usr/src make update && make world && make kernel && mergemaster The last command runs the tool used for merging system config files. > Eventually he would like faxes and voice mail to come and go from this = > machine by using email (not quite sure what I am going to do about that = > one) All the fax facilities you could want are in the mgetty port (/usr/ports comms/mgetty+sendfax). Voicemail I'm not sure about, but I know people were working on that one. > Apache Web Server > PHP /usr/ports/www/apache13-php4 (or -php3, if that's what you want). > MySQL /usr/ports/datbases has a number of mysql tools, including two different releases of the server. Personally, I prefer postgresql (/usr/ports/databases/postgresql7) because to get transaction support. > phpNuke I'm not familiar with that one, and it doesn't seem to be in the ports. That could be the painfull one. > - ------=_NextPart_000_014B_01C0735C.CDFA43D0 > Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Oh yeah - you'll get better results from this list if you set your mailer to send only plain text, not a text & HTML copy of the mail: <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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