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Date:      Thu, 2 Nov 2000 08:52:51 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Don Muller <dmuller@lcc.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is this how to use Freebsd?
Message-ID:  <20001102085251.Q20567@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <003c01c044ed$292e1e00$490822d1@user>; from dmuller@lcc.net on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 10:51:30AM -0600
References:  <003c01c044ed$292e1e00$490822d1@user>

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* Don Muller <dmuller@lcc.net> [001102 08:40] wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have some questions that maybe someone could help with.

[snip...]

> 
> 1).Does the network have any obligation to lock down a server,
> before they hand it over? They have been hit by 10 such attacks
> since mine and have changed the strategy to locking the systems
> down.

Not unless you have a contract that says that they are responsible
for locking the machine down.

> 2).Does the file and partition system look ok for a 2 drive
> Freebsd install? We mainly want to use 1 hd and have one for back
> up of the first.

The default should be ok for drive 1, you can make drive 2 a seperate
filesystem for doing backups and it would work fine.

> 3). Is the following a system that defeats the purpose of Freebsd,
> or is not a good way to use it?
> 
> *Not from programmer
> Tell them to set up the drives as follows:
> 
> ___1 paritition per drive___
> 
> drive 1 mount to /
> 
> drive 2 mount to /mnt/backup

That's a typlical 'Linux' partitioning choice, personally I dislike it
and prefer something link:

120M /
300M /var
2xRAM swap (limit 1 gig)
rest /usr

/usr may be split into /usr and /usr/home, if so /usr usually gets
about 1.5gigs and /usr/home gets the rest.

A couple of suggestions:

1) please wrap lines at 70 characters when posting to the list.
2) you seem to be in pretty bad need for a skilled FreeBSD
   consultant or full time admin.  

   see: http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/consulting_bycat.html
   or perhaps respond in private mail if you're interested in
   a training, perhaps we could work something out.

best of luck,
-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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