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seems that postfix sometimes does not start after enabling smtp – check overview in server admin to see if all services are running – command “start postfix” from terminal can help – however, I had to reboot server “shutdown -r now” from remote ssh session.
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not to dispute apple’s high (but much lower than ms) upgrade price, BUT,
from my (fairly) extensive experience with 10 server, i’d say that any beginning user should not mess with anything but 10.3.
bear in mind that the 10 user liscence only limits the number of concurrent appleshare/afp connections.
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anyone working with apple server hardware/software in a multi-platform server environment will see good and bad points.
i find that it helps to keep in mind that currently, apple’s stuff is definitely on a steep development curve, and probably not ready for core enterprise deployment yet.
HOWEVER, for a lot of organizations (like many of my clients), apple’s attractive price/performance ratio is a big selling point.
about software raid – as of 10.3.3, one can now rebuild software raid arrays on the fly (ie, in a hot system), apple says. also, you CAN be alerted to hardware issues by making use of the Server Monitor app – i’ve used it to spot a degrading software striped raid on an xserve, and fix the problem before it got messy. btw, this app only works with xserves, not towers or other apple units.
but, please, steve, give us an xserve with hardware-controlled raid!
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…is a good service for this. also DNSupdate is a handy updater daemon with graphical front-end, though a little cryptic in the way the interface works.
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