Upgrading hardware on an 8 year old linux install

Samba = SMB which is exactly what Windows uses. NFS, while it does work with Windows, takes some work to setup.

I have to agree with going RHEL or something similar. I prefer Fedora to Cent. Nothing new seems to work with Cent because of just how outdated some of its packages are.
 
Cronyx said:
UPDATE: _These fraking people._

They're running it as a NAS. THERE ARE NO PROGRAMS INSTALLED.
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That's the way our old GAAP system was. You ran the .exe from the server and it had all the data files on it as well. Archaic old system. When I started using it, we were using Novel Netware for networking with old P266 DOS boxes with the Novel DOS client on them. Then we ran Win98 for years, even after XP since the Novel Windows Client sucked real bad for XP. Finally... we moved to Server 2000 and Windows XP.

I would just call it a day, and put a Windows box in it's place. Set up a backup system to back up daily at the end of the day.
 
criccio said:
Samba = SMB which is exactly what Windows uses. NFS, while it does work with Windows, takes some work to setup.

I have to agree with going RHEL or something similar. I prefer Fedora to Cent. Nothing new seems to work with Cent because of just how outdated some of its packages are.
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True, but it's easier finding help online because of it.

Really, all he needs is samba. CentOS works just fine in a 2003/2008 environment, I'd go with that. Not only that, but it makes backups a bit easier to work with.
 
Cronyx said:
Poking around with a Cent 5.5 live cd. Feels uncomfortable as I'm not familiar with it, I use ubuntu on my laptop.

Any reason why I can't just use ubuntu for this? Why cent?
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I wouldn't particularly trust Ubuntu/Ubuntu Server to keep running for another 8 years, especially if anyone comes along and tries to pull in security updates for it. Canonical's focus is not on the Enterprise/Server market for the most part. Three years ago at work we switched a bunch of server over to Ubuntu Server. They ran mostly fine doing mundane things however IT eventually ran into enough problems with them that we are now removing all shreds of Ubuntu Server from the networks and evaluating other distros.

Presuming you just want to set it and forget it, the more enterprise oriented distros are likely to hold up better.
 
You could always just run plain debian stable. That way you'll be somewhat familiar with it since you're familiar w/ ubuntu.
 
Alright if I'm going with Fedora as seems popular in this thread, is there a Fedora Server? All I'm seeing is Desktop, which implies there's a server edition, right?
 
The full fedora 14 DVD includes all the packages you need for a server.
 
Cronyx said:
That doesn't sound like the thing I want D:
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It's usually pretty stable...BUT updates will become problematic after a couple years.

Go with CentOS. If you can get them to wait a couple months, go with CentOS 6. Otherwise, the lastest CentOS 5 will work for what you need it for.
 
I love seeing every thread about linux develop into a distro debate. XD

That said, some good info here.
 
I'm just doing SUSE as that's what they already had and I've been poking around on it for a few days so it's starting to feel familiar. It ultimately doesn't matter which it is as it's going to sit there for years and never get touched, even for updates.

There's this Rapid Reports program or something they're running, it doesn't matter, it's just under /rapid. That's everything they need, and it just needs to be shared over the network.

I'm wanting to set up a cron job, well actually three cron jobs, that will copy the contents of that directory to a second hard drive every day, every week, and every month. So there'd be three backups of /rapid for redundancy. (Daily work gets saved there on the server too, that's why I'm paranoid about it.)

Is there a way to run an other command based on a fail code? I'd like PINE (or something, suggest different?) to send an email if one of these cron jobs fails for whatever reason so somebody knows to check on it.

Also, I found this: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/18428.html

This is what I want to do, tell me if I'm doing it wrong or there's a better way:
smartctl -AH /dev/hda
and output that to a txt file (I'll figure out how to do that a little later)
cat the text file and find any trace of "Old_age" or "Pre-fail", and if true, send an email. That would be a 4th cron job that ran every day, on both drives.

As always, thanks, you guys have been immensely helpful for this linux noob.
 
You could use Windows 98...it had no restrictions....sorry I just had to do it...lol
 
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