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From: Chris Job <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon 21 june 1999 5:17
Subject: what next for this newbie..
>Well folks,
>I've loaded RedHat Linux 5.2 and Xwindows!!. I need some guidance on
>what to do next. My ultimate goal is the use this PC as an intranet for
>my company. So I at a lost as to where to go from here. By this I mean
>Should I configure email, ftp and telnet services before I configure the
>Apache server ? Or the other way around.
>
>Also, I plan to use a 56k modem (hopefully this is temp. until I show
>the powers that be the need for at least an ISDN connection). just to
>test things out and to show that it works. So my next question is how
>do I go about configuring everything so I can get it to work?
>
>Thank got the help.....
>
First of all, choose/build the right kernel. I am not familiar with that
redhat release, but I suppose it is at /usr/src/linux (or smt). Read (you
should ALWAYS do that... nag nag... :) ) the readme file, use 'make config'
if you know what you are doing (I suppose, considering you wrote to
linux-newbie, don't :) ). I think you can also use 'make menuconfig'
(menu-guided) and 'make xconfig' (for X-win, you say you got it working,
well, heh, in my case that was the biggest part of the trouble). If you have
a kernel configured with the stuff you want, you're set for a while
(considering that). Then get your hosts, host.conf, resolv.conf and all
that. Before you go online, get rid of all services in your inetd.conf and
'/etc/rc.d/*' - files that you are not planning to use (most services have
some nasty security-holes; the less services you use, the less possible can
get exploited). After that, try to get ppp to work (I suppose that is what
you're gonna use), and configure your email too, so you get the base. After
that, you just do whatever you want (or think is most necessary); Apache
doesn't take long to configure (if it's installed correctly, that is :) ),
ftp and telnet either.
I don't think there really is an order to do things, as long as you do the
basics (kernel, basic system configuration stuff like dev's, ...) first.
However, I am no pro, actually I just learned to walk meself ... :)
_____
Marc
