Well, it's easier than you think. Probably it's already set up if you
start sendmail and apache at boot. BTW, you don't need sendmail running as
a daemon unless you intend to *receive* email delivered directly to your
machine.
It's been a few months since I did a bare install on a RedHat machine so
bear with me. :) SuSE (the distribution I currently use) is a little
different, particularly about web stuff.
The apache configuration file is in /etc/httpd and then I believe conf
then httpd.conf (SuSE is /etc/httpd/htppd.conf, but I recall RedHat having
another layer in there). You may need to set something like the
ServerName.
Quickest and dirtiest way is to, using a web browser, http://localhost and
see if you get anything.
If not, log in as root for one terminal session and do:
tail -f /var/log/messages
(this will watch the end of the file and update when it changes)
Then, if apache isn't started (you can check with: "ps aux | grep httpd",
start it (as root) with httpd. Then look to see if you get any errors.
As for sendmail, the configuration is pretty voodoo and we'd need to know
a little more about your setup.
On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Solomon wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have installed red hat 5.1 and I need setup an mail/internet server.
> I would like to use sendmail and apache. Any suggestions on how to go
> about it? (I am a complete newbie).
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