At 10:10 PM 12/5/02 -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
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I can't be more clear without knowing which actual SMTP server you are running (examples are sendmail, smail, exim, and postifx). In general, each will be able to run with an argument that tells it to check the mail queue (the file of unsent messages) and try to send them. With exim, as an example, you run it as "exim -q" or as "runq". You could do this (as root) every 30 minutes from a suitable crond file.Apparently, since I only use SMTP to send mail, I don't want the SMTP server. I run fetchmail now from cron every half hour, and I could readily combine that with whatever is needed to "help with queued messages" (about which I'm unclear).
Starting and stoping services has nothing at all to do with iptables. You do this by stopping the actual daemon process or removing (in practice, normally, you actually comment out) the service's entry in /etc/inetd.conf . But I'd suggest you put aside worrying about this stuff until you have the real RH 8.0 machine running and can check its list of services ... older RH distros were careless about starting up unneded stuff, but I'm sure you'll find RH 8.0 less gunked up in this respect.Unfortunately, I'm not clear if at this point I'm trying to remove rules for the INPUT chain or add them.
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> >Etc.Well, I was just fumbling about for the kind of information you needed, and the "etc" meant anything else that is usual and necessary. I didn't have the savy to specify what those things might be.
Well ... we're talking about services here, not about the clients you want to run. As regards services available on the Internet from a dynamic-address connection, there really are no "usual and necessary" ones. Some (not me) will suggest running an auth (ident) server to respond to queries from services that do ident checking; since I don't do this, you'll need advice from someone else if you want to try it. Some setups require the ability to handle DHCP broadcast traffic, but not (usually) PPPoE lines. If there's anything else of consequence, I can't think of it either.
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