From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 8 22:22:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA20241 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 22:22:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (antipodes.cdrom.com [204.216.27.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA20152 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 22:21:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA00322; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 22:18:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804090518.WAA00322@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Terry Lambert cc: tom@sdf.com (Tom), louie@TransSys.COM, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, robert@cyrus.watson.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape: Linux a top priority (news.com article) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 Apr 1998 02:45:03 -0000." <199804090245.TAA23164@usr02.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 22:18:21 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > An interesting question is of the high-volume FreeBSD-based web servers, > > > how many would want to purchase the Netscape product rather than just > > > using Apache? > > > > I think there would be more interest in the other stuff that makes up > > SuiteSpot like the integrated mail and news server with LDAP support > > combined with a web interface. > > LDAP runs under FreeBSD, but even with all the patches, it's not FWIW, this is just about ready-to-roll as a port, I'm just waiting to hear from the previous maintainer. > *quite* the same as the NetScape, which runs a full v3 LDAP. The > UMICH LDAP + Critical Angle patches + Terry patches is nearly a > full v3 LDAP. But there is little subschema support, and the > NULL basedn support/namingcontexts attributes are not happy. Sure. But is it "good enough" for the things we originally want(ed) to do with it? > Oh yeah. I have part of a getpwent/gethostent/getprotoent/... > set of libc function replacements done (the Linux ones suck, and > they don't compile anyway, and they're LGPL'ed) so that you can > boot a FreeBSD box using an RFC2307 LDAP server instead almost > all of the files normally found in /etc/passwd (the ones that > NIS+ can serve, anyway). getfsent/getmntent/getenv... ? > 8-) 8-). 8P How about the "millions of files" backend? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message