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Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 01:12:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "Sconiers, John" <john.sconiers@Orbisnews.com>
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Subject: Re: Upgrading systems
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On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Sconiers, John wrote:

> We just bought 3 new Unix boxes (Pentium 300's with 3 9gig SCSI hard 
> drives).  The units will be replacing 3 old Pentium 100 boxes that run 
> Freebsd 2.1.7.1 and Red Hat Linux.  The boxes will be doing light 
> news, mail, firewall, shell, DNS, www, and ftp.  My experience with 
> installing from a boot floppy (2.2.6) on a couple of machines at home 
> went well, however I'm wondering if its possible for some people to 
> give ideas about how to install on a "PRODUCTION ENVIROMENT" where 
> there are security concerns as well as other issues.  Also in the 
> newsgroup people refer to a one or more machines as sort of a code 
> base machine that is used to test pre production code as well.  Is 
> this generally the practice of a Freebsd Sys-Admin.  Any other help or 
> comments would be greatly appreciated.

There is a great article in the May 1998 edition of SysAdmin magazine on
this.  

http://www.samag.com/archive/0705/feature.html

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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