From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 25 11:43:15 2004 Return-Path: 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 1EB4416A4CE for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 11:43:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A839B43D39 for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 11:43:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Sun, 25 Apr 2004 13:44:06 -0500 Message-ID: <408C06C0.6000105@daleco.biz> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 13:43:12 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040406 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Ralph M. Los" References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Apr 2004 18:44:06.0765 (UTC) FILETIME=[49DAD9D0:01C42AF5] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Supporting backup batteries over serial port? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 18:43:15 -0000 Ralph M. Los wrote: >Hi, > I'm thinking of converting the last of my servers (Win2k) to >FreeBSD. This last box has the following things, and I want to make >sure I can get the equivalent in FreeBSD. Could someone give me >suggestions on the stuff I can't find info on? > > > This is a long list, so you've a good bit of work to do. Generally, it can all be done. I must say I've not much experience with some of the below, though. >1. Backup (PowerChute-like app, from Belkin?) --> don't know of any >alternative in FreeBSD > > There are a couple. nut, upsmon, and upsd are all under /usr/ports/sysutils. I set nut up a while back, but my UPS battery died before I got it working (here at home) and I've not yet replaced it. (After a recent round with fsck, I've found I need to make that a higher priority...) >2. Exchange 2000 --> Qmail + SquirrelMail + clamAV + SpamAssassin ?? >(How hard is this to setup?) > > Can't say. Sendmail dual + SpamAssassin/clamAV/amavis here. >3. Split-DNS server (internal and external) --> Is there a how-to on >BIND for this? > > Probably. Google is your friend, of course; also, there is a list of additional references in the handbook, 19.10.10 (which, as you have noticed, tells a lot about running BIND but not necessarily[?] about split DNS... >4. PDC --> Assuming SAMBA can do this? White-Paper, or how-to? > > Yup. Check www.samba.org for docs... >5. Backup Server (BackupExec v9.1) --> Arkeia backup solution? >(Freeware?) or comp?? > > There's a bit of talk about "bacula" --- I'm looking into it soon. >THANKS everyone, 3 down, one to go! > >|Ralph > > Good luck! Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.