Forum OpenACS Q&A: Which versions are the strongest?

Posted by Scott Mc Williams on 12/27/01 11:55 PM

Hi all...just wondering what the consensus was regarding the latest
and greatest AOLserver and Postgres. Which is the most stable version
of each of these to work with RedHat Linux 7.2 when building OACS
sites of 3.2.x and higher?

Also, what about Qmail? Anyone using that? What's the most stable
version of that?

Thanks,

Scott

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Posted by Jun Yamog on 12/28/01 06:58 AM

Hi Scott,

I use Postgres 7.1.3 on our development and production servers. We use it because OpenACS 4.x requires PG 7.1.x. Aolserver 3.3.1+ad13 is the aolserver you would want to use. Although I think some people are already running 3.4 or higher with ACS. You may also use OpenACS 4.x rather than 3.2.x its already pretty stable we already have a couple of production sites using it. Use qmail over sendmail the latest version from DJB at http://cr.yp.to is very stable since DJB always gives out very stable and secure software. We also use DJB's daemontools so have a look at it too.
I hope this helps just post on the forum if you have further questions

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Posted by Jun Yamog on 12/28/01 07:04 AM

Oh yeah there are know issues with Postgres + OpenACS 3.x + RH 7.2 have a look at this thread

http://openacs.org/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0003Gy&topic_id=OpenACS&topic=11

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Posted by Mat Kovach on 12/28/01 03:57 PM

I'm using OpenACS 4 with Suse 7.X/Debian, PostgreSQL 7.1.3 (built from source) and AOLserver 3.3.1-ad13 (also from source). Basically the postgres and AOLserver versions are required from OpenACS and I find Suse and Debian the least troubesome Linux Distro's out there.

The latest qmail version is 1.03 (released around '98~99) using daemontools/tcpserver (using http://www.lifewithqmail.org as my setup model). DJB's software is always rock-solid which as the benefit of -not- having to be updated all the time.