From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jan 25 20:55:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.sixpak.net (adsl-151-204-22-8.adsl.bellatlantic.net [151.204.22.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3690B37B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:55:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mike (mike [192.168.10.2]) by mail.sixpak.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA01106; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 00:40:57 -0500 Message-ID: <007c01c08754$3eb92ea0$020aa8c0@sixpak.net> From: "Mike" To: Cc: "Ryan" , "Michael J. Turner" , "Doug Young" Subject: Frustrated but trying again Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:55:44 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org First I want to say a heart-felt Thank You to Ryan, Mike, and Doug. Between the three of you guys and your various comments and humor - I'm making the leap again. This system needs to make the leap of replacing my current linux server which runs sendmail and pop, dns for a couple of domains, apache with php3, and of course a firewall. With your help and input - I hope to transform this box into exactly that replacement and document the entire process. Perhaps this will help some folks as well. Step #1 - www.freebsddiary.com has an unbelievable amount of information. People had referred me to it previously, but I would look at the first page, see some articles, and that was it. Holy Shit, I never clicked on "Index". I had no idea all that info was available. Step #2 - I just did a reinstall (via ftp) of 4.2-RELEASE Step #3 - I'm getting some sleep and hitting this hard tomorrow morning Step #4 - I'm installing bash. I like bash, ALOT. It's 10x better than csh. Besides, it easy :) Step #5 - I dunno??? Do I create the CVS thingie and update the sources? Do I recompile my kernel in preparation for natd and firewall? What do YOU recommend? So I don't scare you away - I don't need hand holding and step by step instructions. But occasionally things get buggy and I need a step in the right direction. Is this corn-balled or is this a decent idea? I can end up posting everything on a website or submit it all to diary as we progress. Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message