Amend 'Better password hashes like SHA'. MD5 is deprecated. And Solaris is supposed to handle ssh just as well as Linux. It's not as if OpenSSH is native to either - it's a port from OpenBSD. Josh On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:34:25AM -0500, Mike Hicks wrote: > Gabe Turner <gabe at msi.umn.edu> wrote: > > > > Well, it's just my opinion, but this sounds like an accident waiting to > > happen. > > Yeah > > > Why are you going to be running Linux on your Suns? > > * Secure services like ssh > * Better password hashes like MD5 > * Package management that works > * Better default syslog configuration > * Support for serial console faster than 9600bps > * Solaris emulation (to an extent) > * Shells and utilities that work > * Never having to compile fileutils ever again > * Support for advanced filesystems like GFS, ReiserFS, XFS > * No /usr/ccs, /usr/ucb, or /usr/xpg4 to confuse people with > * Some nifty GUIs to choose from > * It's good for the sanity of users and administrators > > > Solaris is much better suited to them. > > Solaris might be better suited to the hardware, but Linux is better suited > to the human beings. > > If these systems didn't have people logging into them, I'd be a little > less likely to want to move to Linux, but as it stands, I don't want to > force people to use Bourne Shell, for instance -- it's just morally wrong > ;-) > > Anyway, I guess it's a subjective opinion. I'll have to run some > benchmarks sometime and see how Linux stacks up.. > > > Concerning the failing over: How are you planning on accomplishing that? > > It'd be a largely manual deal (I suppose `hot spare' might be a better > term, but I'm not sure). I don't need anything that can automagically do > it instantly. That'd be nice, but I'm just looking for a way to keep > operating minimally while one of the servers is worked on. Remounting and > killing processes is an annoyance, but it's not going to make the sky fall > in.. > > It is a good point, though, and something I still have to think about.. > Of course, it'd probably be just as big of a problem whether I was doing > Linux or Solaris. Ideally, I'd like both ends to be running Linux and > GFS, though I was considering looking into any other similar solutions > available cross-platform.. > > > BTW: If you _do_ figure out how to get your NFS clients to "fail over" > > to a new server, I'd _love_ to know how you did it. I'm facing a > > similar problem at the moment. > > Well, the only way I know how to do anything like that is to specify > multiple systems to mount from with an automounter daemon. I'm not sure, > off the top of my head, if they can handle a server disappearing after a > filesystem has been mounted, or if they only handle that stuff at > mount-time.. > > -- > _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ A closed mouth gathers no > / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ feet. > \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) > [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ]