I'm thinking of having a go at setting up a file server and music server using 8.04 LTS. Being a cautious type, I've been investigating what might go wrong (forewarned is forearmed!). I came across the comments below (slighted edited) from someone who's reasonably tech-savvy, and wondered if folks here could give me some guidance on whether the comments are true and how much hassle someone new to servers (=me!) would have with the installation.
############ "On the other hand, I built a Ubuntu server last weekend. Here's a selection of the things which caused me grief out of the box: * No CPU power saving enabled * No fanspeed control installed * Needed to set noatime to allow discs to spin down (and had to set discs to spin down!) * Had to compile a upnp server from source, which took a few goes to get right * No automatic updates by default (!!) - had to install and configure cron-apt * cron-apt needed a working mail environment so then had to get exim working , and then smtp auth, etc etc (that took a while) I'm sure there was more I'm forgetting, but you get the idea. Now not all of this is needed for everyone (though I would imagine much of it is), and of course next time I need to build a box it'll go much quicker as I know what I'm doing. But I always smile when people who are clearly very knowledgeable in a field exclaim how it's so easy anyone could do it - we forget what we're good at!" ############ I don't know whether I need to control CPU speed and fan speed or install a upnp server (??); but automatic updates and having the discs spin down seem fairly basic requirements. And it sounds like the guy above had a lot of hassle to set up automatic updates. Any thoughts?? TIA Mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
