From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 23 18:27:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA21792 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 18:27:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from webcube.vegasnet.net (webcube.vegasnet.net [208.136.108.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA21738 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 18:27:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spacey@vegasnet.net) Received: from spacey.vegasnet.net ([208.147.126.203]) by webcube.vegasnet.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA13260 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 17:24:46 -0700 Reply-To: From: "Stacey Jenkins" To: Subject: probably foolish question Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 18:38:00 -0700 Message-ID: <000201bd9f10$b8de2020$cb7e93d0@spacey.vegasnet.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To whom it may concern, I work at a mid-size ISP in the Las Vegas area. As we've been upgrading, we're replacing our webserver with a couple of UltraSPARCs, but are leaving mail on one of our existing Linux boxes, and using the second as a backup. Here's where things get interesting. The backup server is being used as an administration server for our Sun boxes (thru xhost). While copying some files, we lost power and the admin/backup server's file structure got pretty messed up. When I tried to reinstall the original OS (a combination of Caldera-xwindows and RedHat-everything else, with Kernel being Linux 1.2.13) and run the backup tape, it couldn't set up a ram drive from the startup disks and the whole thing was screwed. We put FreeBSD on it, just so we could set up the admin server, and let it go at that. Unfortunately, this means that for now, we have no backup mail server, a very bad thing. My question for you is this, could we run the information on the 4gig backup tape under FreeBSD? Is the file structure similar enough? Could the BSD kernel support the Linux sendmail? I understand that this may seem naive, and the answer is probably a simple NO, but I've got to ask. The alternative is to try and track down someone who has a copy of the same Linux Kernel (a tough task as the supplier of our server is now out of business). I greatly appreciate any assistance you could offer in this matter. Regards, Stacey J Stacey Jenkins spacey@vegasnet.net support@vegasnet.net System Administrator Las Vegas Internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message