I'm going to have to (respectfully) disagree with Dan for once.
I'm running RH9 on one of my boxes (see below) and I've not encountered any
problems. I migrated this box from RedHat 6 with a very similar setup to
Karl's old server (MJ1, Apache1, etc..). I will likely do this with all my
*nix based servers.
There are some minor (read 2 or 3 keystrokes) config changes you need to
make to RedHat 9 to make it work well with perl. And a few of the 'default'
installs that come with RH9 are a little flakey. (perl is one of them.) But
manually building things fixes all that.
My current config:
Software:
Redhat 9.0
MD 2 ver 0.1200305290
Sendmail 8.12.8
MimeDefang 2.38
SpamAssassin 2.60
Anomy Email Sanitizer 1.63
Apache 2.0.40-8
Perl 5.8.1
Hardware:
Pentium 4 1.7 Ghz
1 GB ram
SCSI Ultra 320 10,000 rpm drives
Ethernet connection to an OC-48 fiber backbone.
I've had no stability problems whatsoever, and I run over 80 webservers and
several majordomo2 lists off of this box.
The only reason I say go with RH9 is that upgrades like this are things you
only want to do every few years. Starting with a 'dated' version means
you'll be more likely to reach end of support and be forced to upgrade sooner.
YMMV
ps - if you do decide to go down the RH9 road, I'm willing to help. I had
this box installed with RH9 and sshd and pretty much nothing else. I build
it all by hand from the full distributions of each package (read - no
RPM's) and it's rock solid and stable. I think the RPM's and the 'built in
apps' are part of the problem, some of them are questionable.
At 00:23 11/15/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>I agree with going to RH8 vs RH9 for compatibility and stability issues.
>
><snip>
>Dan Liston
>
>karlp@ourldsfamily.com wrote:
>
>>Hi Wise Ones...
>>I can't imagine I'm the only one to do this, so I turn to your experience
>>for guidance. Yes, I've bit the big one and installed a new server. So
>>far, I've moved DNS and the users over. However, because of the
>>intertwining of HTTP, SMTP, MTA, MD1.94.5, MajorCool, CGI and whatever
>>else I can't think of...
>>Well, what would you recommend.
>><snip>
Michael K Donohue
webmaster@bard.net
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