From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 24 10:53:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA22022 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 10:53:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nwalme.pair.com (nwalme.pair.com [209.68.1.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA21807 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 10:52:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dima@nwalme.pair.com) Received: (from dima@localhost) by nwalme.pair.com (8.9.0/8.6.12) id NAA09329; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 13:51:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199806241751.NAA09329@nwalme.pair.com> X-Envelope-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: probably foolish question To: support@vegasnet.net Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 13:51:54 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <000201bd9f10$b8de2020$cb7e93d0@spacey.vegasnet.net> from Stacey Jenkins at "Jun 23, 98 06:38:00 pm" From: Dima Dorfman X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. Umm, I'm kind of confused about this. The back/admin server crashed, and you can't seem to restore it. You installed FreeBSD instead of that server. You want to install a backup mail server on it, and you want to know if the Linux sendmail will work with FreeBSD. The short answer is, kinda :) You can run the same sendmail, with the same config file, but you have to recompile to to run on FreeBSD. I'm not sure about the directory structure, but yo might just want to copy the config file (sendmail.cf), and recompile sendmail to run on FreeBSD. Hope this helps :) > > > 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 > -- Dima Dorfman (dima@zwb.net) - http://www.zwb.net/ Microsoft: How long do you want to wait today? FreeBSD Rules! Micro$oft Sucks! http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message