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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!seagoon.newcastle.edu.au!brushtail.hna.com.au!praetor!matt From: matt@praetor.hna.com.au (Matt McLeod) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Moving from Linux to FreeBSD - any advice? Date: 14 Dec 96 15:29:13 GMT Organization: Hunter Network Association, Australia Lines: 34 Message-ID: <matt.850577353@praetor> NNTP-Posting-Host: praetor.hna.com.au Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32611 I'm seriously considering switching our UUCP hub to FreeBSD (from Linux - Slackware 3.0 with some modifications). Naturally this is not a step to be taken lightly - I intend to test everything on a different (but similar) machine first. However - any pointers would be greatly appreciated. The hardware is: Cyrix 5x86 16Mb RAM PC-COM 8-port serial board (Linux thinks it's an AST fourport) EIDE hard drive The machine runs headless most of the time, handling 4 28k8 modems, a news-server, mail routing for our UUCP network, etc. We presently use Sendmail for mail-routing, but I'm considering a switch to Smail (only older Linux sendmail binaries seem to handle UUCP correctly - newer binaries [including those in the last FreeBSD snapshot I looked at] don't handle routing via smarthost correctly [they insist on checking with a nameserver, even when told not to], so I'll have to compile it anyway, so I may as well evaluate other options while I'm at it). Has anyone else gone down this road? Are you pleased with the results? Were there any traps along the way? Thanks for any info. Matt -- Matt McLeod "Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses." System Administrator - Sir Humphrey Appleby Hunter Network Association KDE: http://www.zws.com/kde/