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List:       freebsd-isp
Subject:    RE: Conversion to FreeBSD from Linux
From:       "Scott St. John" <ssj () scottah ! com>
Date:       2004-02-26 21:20:38
Message-ID: 200402262116.i1QLGj2C021748 () cah ! talon ! net
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Ah!  Worked like a charm!  FreeBSD here I come!

Thank you to everyone on the list for your help.  This should be in
evangelism, but I will share it here.

We are a small ISP that was on BSDi up until 2 years ago.  When the old
Pentium 100, 64 meg of ram mail server crashed I went to Linux because we
had IBM Netfinity machines and BSD would not work with the RAID controller
at the time.  Keep in mind this old P100 handled over 2,000 email accounts,
secondary DNS, radius, webmail and user home pages.  It was a great machine
and ran for 6 years!

Went with RH 7.2 on a Dual P3 700 Mhz machine with 2 gigs of ram and it has
been a nightmare ever since!  Load averages over 30 several times a day,
backup DNS often fails, etc.  So I got some new servers from ASA and was
bound and determined to move back to BSD.  Thanks to everyone on the list I
will be able to do that and I am sure I will sleep better at night and my
users will be happier :)

-Scott


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org]
> On Behalf Of Roberto Pereyra
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 6:33 AM
> To: Mark Sergeant
> Cc: Scott St. John; freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Conversion to FreeBSD from Linux
> 
> Hi !
> 
> Read http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq9.html#passwd
> 
> Is for Openbsd but works with FreeBSD.
> 
> Roberto
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:24:22AM +1000, Mark Sergeant wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 03:49, Scott St. John wrote:
> > > Mark-
> > >
> > > I take it I run this directly on the BSD machine?  I will give it a
> try
> > > and let you know how it works out.  I will remove the system accounts
> from
> > > the Linux passwd file before I run the script.
> > >
> >
> > Run this script on the linux machine, then edit the output file to get
> > rid of the system accounts, once that is done scp that file across to
> > the bsd machine and you could simply cat filename >> /etc/master.passwd
> > && pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd . The reason this has to be run on the
> > linux machine is due to how it grabs the system accounts.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > > THANK YOU!
> > >
> > > -Scott
> >
> > > On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Mark Sergeant wrote:
> > >
> > > > -- Begin perl script --
> > > > -- End perl script
> > > >
> > > > Should work well enough on linux as well. ohh and of course if you
> > > > intend to use it more than once drop in some error checking /
> catching,
> > > > something to remove the system accounts and of course "use strict"
> > --
> > Mark Sergeant <msergeant@snsonline.net>
> > SNSOnline Technical Services
> 
> 
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