From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 11 6:19:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from squid.tznet.com (squid.tznet.com [206.31.5.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3A5F37B404 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:19:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (tech@localhost) by squid.tznet.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f0BEJUZ74757 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 08:19:30 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 08:19:30 -0600 (CST) From: Scott Pilz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: General Questions Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (The responses to this message will help us obtain 3-4 new FreeBSD systems and manage existing) Please respond to tech@squid.tznet.com (I'm not sure if I will get a response otherwise--I'm not on the mailing list?) Thanks to anyone who distributes to these questions. We run an ISP, 7-8k users. All FreeBSD boxes currently. Background: We ran into another ISP (about the same size, just more funding) that decided to merge in one way or another, they run SunOS 5.6 on three-four different boxes (with Sun hardware). For ISP ussage, what is recommended, SunOS or FreeBSD? Can FreeBSD run on Sun hardware that is apx. 2 years old? Does it run well? What about Sun hardware that is running more than one proccessor? Are FreeBSD and Sun very different from one another? (I realize unix is unix, as windows is windows, and dos is dos, however the command structures I'm slightly confused about) I spent an hour yesterday trying to find a SunOS command just to read the CPU ussage (such as TOP does in BSD) and failed :-(.. Anyone know any commands like this? In the long run, I hope to switch these Sun boxes to BSD, I'm *sold* on BSD, atleast for ISP aspects, is this a good idea to switch, or is it worth while learning another OS because Sun offers more than BSD? Looking for the *best* hardware to buy for FreeBSD. Any paticular motherboards, hard drives, proccessors that seem to work better with FreeBSD than others? We may be looking at Raid hot-swapable drives, is this a good idea? if so anyone running any paticular hardware we should purchase? Last but not least, there was a fellow from this mailing list that had sent a script that he had made to add users using a single command line -- I, unfortunnatly, lost this message the other day and am looking for the script again - if you're out there *please* send it again, thanks! (ie: I have a file of 7k names and passwords, I want to script it to add a user, password, home directory, etc. etc. all in a single command line, I can't do this with adduser..) Thanks again for all your help. -Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message