[thelist] Can't get MySQL to run on Boot (was: Single install of PHP4, MySQL, Apache for Linux?)

[Daniel J. Cody]

+1 on low end linux mailservers..

my first out of school job i installed an old gateway 120 with 64Mb of 
ram and 5Gb disk to handle email & DNS for 3 domains, POP3 for 15 
people, IMAP  for 20 others, and ran a mailing list that shot out about 
1500 emails a day. Ran like a *champ* for with non downtime for 10 
months then blew a disk drive. at which point i replaced with with a 
p166 and new drive :)

email & dns especially are low cpu/memory usage, although high on disk 
I/O and are services that run great on old servers.

hell, every email going through lists.evolt.org gets relayed through 
either a 486/66, p133, or 8 year old sparc5 - all running linux - before 
going to individual mailboxes. on an slow day of 100 emails between all 
the lists, thats over 300,000 emails per *day* :)

so ya, they make good mailservers ;)

.djc.

Dave Preston wrote:

> I never actually tested the throughput, but it runs great for my 128k
> upstream dsl. I host a few domains for myself and a couple for friends
> and same for the email with no troubles.
> 
> Compiling on it will be a tad slow though but patience is a virtue or
> something... ;) Of course packages are good too, I just tend to prefer a
> finer grained controll over what I install...
> 
> -d
> 
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 03:58:12PM -0800, spinhead wrote:
> 
>>So, Dave, how's the performance? I'm finally retiring my daughter's Pentium
>>Pro 100 w/80 meg o'RAM, and was thinking about a Linux web/mail server (low
>>usage) as a practice/testbed machine.
>>
>>I'll try not to compare it to the PIII-800 w/384M I have here at work.