[rescue] [OT?] Linux on a SS2
Steve Sandau
ssandau at gwi.net
Sun Feb 15 08:00:09 CST 2004
>>If I wanted to make an OpenBSD box double as a general-purpose web server on
>>the 'net, would it do it well? What I'm asking is how well does Open do for
>>non-firewall tasks compared to NetBSD or even Linux?
>
>
> It's Unix. It does about as well as any other Unix. The Apache that
> comes with OpenBSD, by default, is very strict about what it'll do. The
> man page describes an override switch that makes it behave like vanilla
> Apache.
>
>
Yeah, OBSD runs a chrooted apache by default. It can be overridden in
some config file in /etc, I forget which. FWIW though, I thought it'd be
much harder to set up than it was. I have perl cgi scripts and php
running in the chrooted environment. Some things (like apache mod, I
think) load before the chroot, so it's not so tough. worth trying anyway.
I'd be running OBSD on my SS20 if it supported muptiple procs. I
understand it does not, so I have NetBSD installed and compiled a
GENERIC.MP kernel. Love it.
SteveS
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