[techtalk] New RH system...Cobalt

[Nancy Corbett]

I've seen this cobalt cube too.  It's really kewl.  And very reasonably
priced.  I want one, I want one, I want one!!

On Mon, 22 May 2000, Stephanie Alarcon wrote:

> actually, over here we're using Cobalt servers (www.cobalt.com).  the
> inital setup is really easy, just punch in an ip adress, netmask, and
> couple other things on the lcd display on the front of the thing, and the
> rest of the administration is done through a web interface.  they are
> bright translucent blue, monitorless linux boxes designed to simplify web
> and email server setup by putting all major administration tools behind a
> fairly friendly passworded web interface, but you can still telnet/ssh to
> the command prompt and tool around in there.
> 
> btw, they are really cute and a stack of the rack mounts looks very snazzy
> and hip in the server room.
> 
> unfortunatley, I'm having trouble getting mail to work on one of them,
> although all the webservers have worked pretty much immediately.  Oh, and
> we had one that wouldnt' boot, but that's the first hardware problem
> we've seen after ordering 7 of them, including one that is acting as a
> firewall for my boss's home cable modem setup.  i'll let you know if
> there's some big secret to setting up the mail stuff (the goal is secure
> imap...but first we wanted to try secure pop and can't see a whole slew of
> services...have a call into cobalt)
> 
> On Mon, 22 May 2000, A. Morner wrote:
> 
> > Hi Folks..
> > 
> > Brief intro:  Tech Coordinator of a small accounting firm in NH, some
> > experience in Linux, mostly user-end,  but still learning as I go along..
> > 
> > Background:  I've been asked to build a redhat box that will serve as our
> > email, web and ftp server (among various other little tasks)..  We already
> > have one server up and running RH 6.2 with a BP6 motherboard by Abit, only
> > trouble being that the ATA/66 drives we put in, had to settle for 33.  Tried
> > using Gentus, a highly plagarized version of Redhat put out by ABit, but
> > something wasn't stable and I'm not LinuxLiterate enough yet to figure out
> > what it was so we went back to RH.  I'm not certain with regards to the
> > other components where to go from here..
> > 
> > My question:  What would you folks recommend for an "ideal" server.  My boss
> > wants me to use a dual-processor motherboard and it looks like that will
> > have to be the BP6.
> > 
> > My goals:  I want it fast, I want it stable, I want it easy to setup.  I
> > want to put the system together and install with no glitches. My goal in
> > this is not to learn how to recompile a kernel (I'm sure many of you are
> > smirking saying "if you only knew how easy it was," but I've other things I
> > need to learn first. (That can come later ;)
> > 
> > Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated..
> > TIA,
> > Angela
> > 
> > 
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