>
>> The GENERIC kernel has been compiled with all the right flags. The
>> article you cite was never good advice and furthermore it is going on 8
>> years old.
> It's going to take me a while to get used to having a kernel that I
> don't HAVE to touch - not that I'm complaining!
>
>> Don't do that either without a better reason. Postfix, for example,
>> comes as a package in OpenBSD. Two versions (stable and snapshot, both
>> good enough to use in critical service) and several flavours. Look at
>>
http://openports.se/mail/postfix/snapshot for a clue.
> Postfix I can probably take from a package. However, this server will
> need to duplicate the environment on my two Internet-facing Linodes
> (Linux virtual servers), plus my laptop, which is my main development
> platform.
>
> Apache and MySQL have to be hand-builds - my Apache installation is
> configured for a very specific environment (and all my apps would
> break if chrooted) and I have applications that rely on specific
> Apache modules. MySQL - well - I use 5.1 and that's not a production
> release, but has features that I need in my development environment.
> I'll probably get yelled at now, having entered a security
> conscious|paranoid community, but it would take MONTHS to change my
> environment and re-code everything to work otherwise. It is also a
> bit of a non-issue as regards this server - it's on an intranet with
> one user that logs in - me.
>
>> From the land "down under": Australia.
>> Do we look from up over?
> No, but when I first came here, I was fascinated by the way water goes
> down the plughole the other way round.
>
> Thanks all for your replies and patience.
>
> Cheers
>
> M
