Well, Sam learned a valuable lesson today. Dont mess around too much with Apache! After faffing around all day and generally clogging my server up with multiple apache installs, i decided to format in order to tidy it up. For a laugh and while i was installing anyway, i put Suse 10.2 on as a SERVER O/S (gulp). Now, my thoughts :-

1. Looks very nice, has a very nice feel, and generally kicks Ubuntus ass on this point.

2. YaST (when working) makes it VERY easy to configure servers. However, it has a very ‘microsoft’ feel to it, in the sense you get the feel it says its working when it actually isnt.

3. Runs faster than Ubuntu (in my opinion).

4. Would make a very nice Desktop system, but not a server O/S. For one im too unfamiliar with it (being no apt-get for one).

So i decided to go back to Ubuntu, and for some reason my NAT Firewall settings are unable to be retrieved from my backup, so ive had to redo ALLLL that again, which doesnt impress me, at all.

And conundrum number 10,000 : My Ubuntu server for the last 3 weeks or more has had an ip of 10.0.12.98, i format OS’s, and now it has an ip of 10.0.12.25. Why? I find this very strange, a reinstall of an OS shouldnt change my MAC address lol…

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