From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 1 16:53:17 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 084A716A41C for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 16:53:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (internet.potentialtech.com [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC15D43D53 for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 16:53:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from localhost (24-53-250-148.pittpa.adelphia.net [24.53.250.148]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0340269A3E; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 12:53:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 12:53:15 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: "Jean-Paul Natola" Message-Id: <20050601125315.160ebcf6.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9414EE6@fci-ex.FCI> References: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9414EE6@fci-ex.FCI> Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mailscanner PC requirements X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:53:17 -0000 "Jean-Paul Natola" wrote: > Hi all, > > First OFF NEWBIE here - so please bear with me-- > > I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 on a box that I plan to use Mailscanner to > "filter" the mail prior to hitting my Mail server. > > Its on a PII 450 with 256mb ram and a 12 gig drive. > > I would like to know > > 1) How can I check to make sure the system is running OK ( I'm from the > windows world) where we have event logs and performance monitor to make sure > the install was done correctly, give you page fault data mem ,cpu usage > etc... > > Any tools or commands in FreeBSD that can give me this type of info? Look at top(1), systat(1), as well as the various logs in /var/log > 2) given the above specs, is that ok to handle mail for roughly 40 users? Hard to say without more details on what the volume is for those 40 users, but I expect it should be OK ... unless your usage patterns are very unusual. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com