From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 2 8:52:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C39937B4E5 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 08:52:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eA2Gqp426791; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 08:52:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 08:52:51 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Don Muller Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is this how to use Freebsd? Message-ID: <20001102085251.Q20567@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <003c01c044ed$292e1e00$490822d1@user> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <003c01c044ed$292e1e00$490822d1@user>; from dmuller@lcc.net on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 10:51:30AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Don Muller [001102 08:40] wrote: > Hello, > > I have some questions that maybe someone could help with. [snip...] > > 1).Does the network have any obligation to lock down a server, > before they hand it over? They have been hit by 10 such attacks > since mine and have changed the strategy to locking the systems > down. Not unless you have a contract that says that they are responsible for locking the machine down. > 2).Does the file and partition system look ok for a 2 drive > Freebsd install? We mainly want to use 1 hd and have one for back > up of the first. The default should be ok for drive 1, you can make drive 2 a seperate filesystem for doing backups and it would work fine. > 3). Is the following a system that defeats the purpose of Freebsd, > or is not a good way to use it? > > *Not from programmer > Tell them to set up the drives as follows: > > ___1 paritition per drive___ > > drive 1 mount to / > > drive 2 mount to /mnt/backup That's a typlical 'Linux' partitioning choice, personally I dislike it and prefer something link: 120M / 300M /var 2xRAM swap (limit 1 gig) rest /usr /usr may be split into /usr and /usr/home, if so /usr usually gets about 1.5gigs and /usr/home gets the rest. A couple of suggestions: 1) please wrap lines at 70 characters when posting to the list. 2) you seem to be in pretty bad need for a skilled FreeBSD consultant or full time admin. see: http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/consulting_bycat.html or perhaps respond in private mail if you're interested in a training, perhaps we could work something out. best of luck, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message