Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:57:55 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Mark Filipak <filipak@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mark asks: How should I partition/slice for appliance? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0204221350530.17335-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <3CC36F6A.1F917E56@earthlink.net>
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On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Mark Filipak wrote: > Howdy All! > > I'm about to istall 4.5 on another box. While I use the other box, email > is not accessable (until I'm successful that is). > > I've looked at the "FreeBSD Handbook" and it doesn't have help for > building an appliance. Here's the particulars: > > gateway + firewall + mail-server + www-server + ftp-server + LAN file > server. > > 2 ethernet cards > #1 - connects to my wintel box. PPPoE? > #2 - connects to this building's gateway. PPPoE for this too? > > Memory: 24 MB > Disk: 840 MB > > Emphasis: This is just to be an appliance. CLI only. LAN interface for > configuration, account management, etc. via cgi. > > What are your recommendations for the sizes of: > > / > (swap) > /var > /tmp > /usr -- I know... the rest of the disk, right? You've got a fairly small disk there; I'd be inclined to have a small / (64MB), swap (48MB), and one partition for /usr. Make /tmp and /var symlinks into /usr/tmp and /usr/var. That way, you can maximise the space you've got spare. > What are your recommendations for these: > > gateway > firewall I'd use ipfw and natd, because they come with FBSD and do what you're after. > mail server (sendmail? or something else?) sendmail's fine; there are alternatives (as I'm sure you're aware). Sendmail is only an MTA, however: you'll need something to interface with your client if you want to read your email. Much as I tend to avoid it, qmail has a good suite of stuff, it's small and robust, and there's a pop server that lives closely with it. The advantage of sendmail is that it comes built in, but you'd need _something_ to talk to your MUA for reading mail. > www server (apache?) Apache, yeah - building from the ports should be fine. > ftp server FreeBSD's ftp server should be fine. > LAN file server (samba?) Yep, samba. > I'm a raw newbie (but pretty nubile 8^). adj, (esp. of women) "of a marriageable age". OK, if you say so... -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Goth isn't dead, it's just lying very still and sucking its cheeks in. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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