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writequit
Sep 14, 2004

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I'm having a hard time finding google-proof but Ironport uses rebadged 2950's and successfully runs a modified FreeBSD on them. Your periodic lockup sounds like heat / component failure of some kind, but you could be right - it wouldn't be the first time a Dell server has had issues because of hardware differences in same-generation-and-model servers. I sound like an HP SE, I promise I'm not.

Any generic Sysadmin tips? I'm only running one 7.0 server colo'd and like to think I run a tight ship but am always looking for more ideas or gotchyas I might have missed.

Currently:

- rsnapshot to /usr/snapshot for a local rotation of backups (soon to add offsite jobs too over ssh)
- cron jobs to call shell scripts that mysqldump nightly
- nightly portaudit | mail
- nightly portsnap cron
- pf w/ ingress / egress filtering
- tripwire
- smtp greylisting

I know there is a lot I'm not doing to secure the system. It's a mail server for a few dozen domains, runs exim, apache, mysql, etc.

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