If things go according to plan, when this system next boots, it will be totally rebuilt. I’m not even sure I need it for anything, other than its normal-sized parallel port connector.
The final task was to move the cacti SNMP monitoring system off it, and there have been some issues with MySQL5 and cacti. Turns out all that was needed to turn on MySQL4 compatibility mode.
That can be done on the commandline for testing and in my.cnf to make it stick.
[mysqld]
sql_mode = ‘MYSQL40′
Everything else — apache, mysql, etc. — has been running a Shuttle XPC for the past few months. The Athlon cost $1000+ and the Shuttle, with dual cores and a bunch more memory and disk, cost $0, for comparative purposes.
The old box — a 700 MHz Athlon with a mere 256 Mg RAM and 100 Gb of disk — has been running since March of 2001 or so, here at my house, and from April 2000 to Jan 2001 at my doomed startup. About 2600 days or so. I suspect my electric bill will be lower, and the noise will go down a bit as well.
