[Techtalk] Two Totally off-the wall Questions

[David Merrill]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 10:29:57PM -0500, James wrote:
> I do this actually.
> 
> In fact, this email is going through a P90, with 96megs of RAM and a
> 540meg HD (461 for ext2).
> 
> I run Debian on it.  I just did the absolute minimal install (No
> packages selected in the install).  I then just apt-getted the basics
> (ssh, exim was autoinstalled, pop3 server, bind).  Run with plenty of
> room.  I've had ~1200 emails sitting on the server waiting for me at
> times.
> 
> Granted I'm a little tight on space at ~52 meg.  But I can always add a
> HD and mount it as /var/spool/mail.  And I actually just cleaned up my
> /usr/src and now have 112 meg free.  It is doable :)
> 
> I think I'm going to take another one like this and put it on my
> production network as a snort sniffer.

Cool idea.

Also, you could always share some spool space by nfs from another
machine. I don't know if that will fit into your plans, but it's an
option, maybe.

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