"Shannon M. Johnston" wrote:
>
> Alright please bear with me...
> I'm going to be doing a major reconfiguring of an ISP and there are some
> areas that I'm a bit shady.
> 1.) Any advice on the setup and use of qmail will be appreciated. (I
> heard it was better than sendmail.)
There is a Qmail website at http://www.qmail.org as well as a mailing
list and archives.
> 2.) I'm going to be reloading linux on a main server. Is there a way to
> keep all of the user accounts and passwords?
Copy the password file from the old system, reinstall on the new system,
create a parsing script to grab uid/gid from the password file and
create the users with those ids.
> 3.) Has anyone had experience with port sentries? Could you share
> information with me?
No experience, but I do remember seeing something on Freshmeat.
> 4.) Is there anything special I have to do in order to disable ports? I
> don't want some services running on some computers and I don't want
> access through the ports.
Comment them out in /etc/inetd.conf, turn them off with ntsysv.
> 5.) Any tips/info on configuring NFS would be great.
man exports, and read everything in the appropriate /usr/doc
directories.
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Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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