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I just feel like sharing for a change. I've been in a selfish mood since we bought the house, meaning I really haven't felt like sharing the day-to-day stuff with other people. Maybe I didn't feel it was interesting enough to journal.
Anyway, today I got Fedora Core 2 installed on a pair of Via C3 1 gigahertz Mini-ITX boxes. They're very small--12" x 12", and the power supply is only 80 watts. They make very little noise.
Fedora had a kernel bug which made the install problematic, and I eventually had to download a special boot CD which used the patched kernel that fixed the problem, and had to do a little magic to make sure it installed the patched kernel and not the stock one. Luckily the current kernel works fine, so the next Core release should be hunky dorey, as they say.
My plan is to split the services maelstrom offers across the two boxes. In particular, spamassassin chews so much CPU and we get so much spam (4k/day and that's only spam that's actually addressed to a deliverable account) that I was starting to really notice how much processor time it was taking on the machine.
The new machine will be named tempest; it'll mostly just handle mail service, backup DNS and it'll end up being our primary fileserver, since it's got a nice fat 120 gig drive ($87 at Fry's. Plus a $40 rebate).
I'm going to retool the firewall and turn it into a backup server, I think. I've been very lucky, i think, running a server 7 years without any data loss. I need to get a backup solution in place, and the firewall machine can be the place the data is put. I would just put it on another drive in maelstrom or tempest, but the small boxes can only handle one disk apiece. The problem with very small boxes. I will name this one firestorm.
And then I have to get back to the dissonance project. I've already got it mapped out. Just have to knuckle down and take the time to do it. That's the media server. I have some software that works, but it's been unstable, and it's not customizable. It doesn't do quite everything I want. I know what I want and approximately how to do it.
Oh, and I'm liking my new job too.
Anyway, today I got Fedora Core 2 installed on a pair of Via C3 1 gigahertz Mini-ITX boxes. They're very small--12" x 12", and the power supply is only 80 watts. They make very little noise.
Fedora had a kernel bug which made the install problematic, and I eventually had to download a special boot CD which used the patched kernel that fixed the problem, and had to do a little magic to make sure it installed the patched kernel and not the stock one. Luckily the current kernel works fine, so the next Core release should be hunky dorey, as they say.
My plan is to split the services maelstrom offers across the two boxes. In particular, spamassassin chews so much CPU and we get so much spam (4k/day and that's only spam that's actually addressed to a deliverable account) that I was starting to really notice how much processor time it was taking on the machine.
The new machine will be named tempest; it'll mostly just handle mail service, backup DNS and it'll end up being our primary fileserver, since it's got a nice fat 120 gig drive ($87 at Fry's. Plus a $40 rebate).
I'm going to retool the firewall and turn it into a backup server, I think. I've been very lucky, i think, running a server 7 years without any data loss. I need to get a backup solution in place, and the firewall machine can be the place the data is put. I would just put it on another drive in maelstrom or tempest, but the small boxes can only handle one disk apiece. The problem with very small boxes. I will name this one firestorm.
And then I have to get back to the dissonance project. I've already got it mapped out. Just have to knuckle down and take the time to do it. That's the media server. I have some software that works, but it's been unstable, and it's not customizable. It doesn't do quite everything I want. I know what I want and approximately how to do it.
Oh, and I'm liking my new job too.
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Date: 2004-08-01 11:52 pm (UTC)Use sbl-xbl and ordb at least. I use all the following and have not had any complaints from miche, josh, thida, etc.
sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
relays.ordb.org
cbl.abuseat.org
dnsbl.sorbs.net
dsn.rfc-ignorant.org (rhsbl)
Don't accept mail from hosts without proper reverse dns
Don't send anything over 100K to spamassassin, just deliver it
But, having a nice box with fast CPU probably helps the most!
Remind me later and I will post some instructions for dual-mx virtual hosts here - I think I wrote instructions for both sendmail and postfix.
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Date: 2004-08-02 06:48 am (UTC)Why are you using Fedora when you could be using Debian? :) Apt-get is the shizzle!
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Date: 2004-08-02 08:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-05 01:02 pm (UTC)Though the preferred method is yum which appears to be functionally very similar.
ITX boxes
Date: 2004-08-02 06:56 pm (UTC)Re: ITX boxes
Date: 2004-08-02 09:10 pm (UTC)For the motherboard, ram and case it came to $333. Though it has a pretty piddly graphics chip in it; for about $100 to $150 more they start offering some fairly nice ones. There's one with an integrated GeForce4 I think. Dunno if jklgoduke needs 3d graphics or not.
The motherboard comes with sound, video and network; all that's needed is a hard drive and a slim-line cd-rom. There's not much point in floppies these days; but the cases do tend to have a bay for them anyway.