On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> Curious: What advantages do you see with Novell's directory server
> over, say, OpenLDAP?
Mainly scalability and performance. In our initial testing we could
easily kill OpenLDAP trying to load a few hundred thousand objects in to
it. eDir had no problems with this, on the same hardware. Now we were
using openldap flat files, and didn't do a whole lot of tuning, but didn't
do much eDir tuning either. eDir was faster and more reliable out of the
box.
Novell's implementation is just an LDAP frontend to NDS. It's still
pretty proprietary, but it just plain works. When something works, i tend
to use it, commercial or not.
Other thing is with our current Novell contract, we can us eDir as much as
we want on any platform. It didn't cost extra. The only concern was this
is the first time using a Novell product on Linux. That went out the
window as soon as we went live... it has been the most rock solid piece of
the system. Novell is very interested in how we're "leveraging the
directory" using open source yada yada... my co-worker Brad is working
with Novell now to get something published in the August issue of Novell
AppNotes.
More interesting, the most unreliable piece in our mail system has been
the Linux kernel.
> When I looked at the ClamAV DB a few weeks ago, it looked pretty dead
> for a while. Is there a new URL with the fresh DB?
It was last updated on July 7th.
http://clamav.elektrapro.com/database/
I wrote a script that runs freshclam nightly to update the db, and mails
me the result based on the exit code from freshclam.
-ray
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