Well, after that last thing, I decided that I needed to set up my SPARC box. I've had NetBSD on it for a while (Accursed Sun UNIX!, Hooray for BSD!, Hooray for BSD! (Act 2)). This whole time, I've been using it as a headless server. Basically, I'd plug in power, start Internet sharing on my PowerBook, connect a network cable from my laptop to one of the ethernet cards on the Ultra 5, then boot it. I'd managed to enable DHCP a while ago, so it grabs an address automatically. From there, I've got SSHd set up to let me log in as a given user, then 'su' up to root for anything that really requires root access. All told, it works quite well.

What I decided is that since I've got my router able to forward incoming requests to a given host by default, I could run this thing as an honest-to-goodness server. So now I've got Apache, MySQL, PHP, SSHd and socks5 all running (only Apache and SSH externally accessible, of course). Once I've SSH'd in, I never need to 'su' anymore, since I've got 'sudo' installed and configured. Plus, I can use 'screen' to get multiple virtual terminals (complete with the ability to detach a session and resume it elsewhere!), so I only need to open a single SSH window.

I am become übergeek, destroyer of n00bs.