From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 24 20:35: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.davids.org (www.davids.org [162.42.235.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9147152A6 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 20:34:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dlr@davids.org) Received: from ntwork.davids.org (h-002-069.phoenix.speedchoice.com [24.221.2.69]) by www.davids.org (8.9.2/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA31927; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 20:34:51 -0700 (MST) To: scrappy@hub.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD in a Solaris World X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0 March 30, 1999 Message-ID: From: dlr@davids.org Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 03:32:58 GMT X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Idle on David Richardson/Rhinonet(Release 5.0 |March 30, 1999) at 08/24/99 20:33:15, Serialize complete at 08/24/99 20:33:15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_alternative 00137F88072567D8_=" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multipart message in MIME format. --=_alternative 00137F88072567D8_= Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Marc, I run a Solaris/FreeBSD shop. We have several Solaris machine (2.6 & 2.7), and several FreeBSD machines (2.8,3.1,&3.2). (I do have Linux box, but I try to ignore it :-) ) When I go to my company they where a pure Solaris shop (Intel Bad!). But when they need a new mail server, I suggested that we get a FreeBSD machine (1/3 the cost!) they said go for it. The Unix guru was very sceptical, but after a few weeks and all of the bug being worked out, he is happy with it. I did run into 2 nasty little gotcha's, ok 3. 1. NIS+, Bitchen idea, hard to have NIS clients. Got it to work! Life is good. 2. NFS v3. rpc.lockd doesn't work! Don't even try! You need to tell your Solaris boxes to mount with version 2. This is a bad idea if you need to have file locking. Bummer! 3. You will never have a small log file again if you mount a nfs mount from a FreeBSD machine. I get this message about every 5 minutes: mysun statd[150]: statd: cannot talk to statd at myfreebsd, RPC: Success(0) Once you get past the on being system 5 and the other being bsd life is good. amd is also a very good automount daemon. dave David Richardson dlr@davids.org http://www.davids.org --=_alternative 00137F88072567D8_= Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
Marc,

I run a Solaris/FreeBSD shop. We have several Solaris machine (2.6 & 2.7), and several FreeBSD machines (2.8,3.1,&3.2). (I do have Linux box, but I try to ignore it :-) )

When I go to my company they where a pure Solaris shop (Intel Bad!). But when they need a new mail server, I suggested that we get a FreeBSD machine (1/3 the cost!) they said go for it. The Unix guru was very sceptical, but after a few weeks and all of the bug being worked out, he is happy with it.

I did run into 2 nasty little gotcha's, ok 3.

1. NIS+, Bitchen idea, hard to have NIS clients. Got it to work! Life is good.
2. NFS v3. rpc.lockd doesn't work! Don't even try! You need to tell your Solaris boxes to mount with version 2. This is a bad idea if you need to have file locking. Bummer!
3. You will never have a small log file again if you mount a nfs mount from a FreeBSD machine. I get this message about every 5 minutes:  mysun statd[150]: statd: cannot talk to statd at myfreebsd, RPC: Success(0)

Once you get past the on being system 5 and the other being bsd life is good. amd is also a very good automount daemon.

dave

David Richardson
dlr@davids.org
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