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Date:      Wed, 08 Apr 1998 22:18:21 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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) 
Message-ID:  <199804090518.WAA00322@antipodes.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Apr 1998 02:45:03 -0000." <199804090245.TAA23164@usr02.primenet.com> 

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> > > 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? 
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