On 31 Jan 2001, at 16:56, SF wrote:
> I've been working for about 4 weeks now at setting up qmail on my RH 7.0
> box. I'm somewhat new to linux (my real sys admin background is in WinNT,
> etc. - but I lost the desire to deal with their licensing schemes...) and
> I've given up on the RH dist for a number of reasons including the issues I
> have had with setting up qmail - dealing with xinitd vs. more typical "boot"
> scripts and other things I don't understand enough.
> I have access to pretty much any dist and wanted to know what the opinion is
> on the most recommended distribution... I've heard Debian, FreeBSD, etc in
> other areas, but wasn't sure.
> I intend this box to be super secure with qmail (for multiple domains) and
> bind/dns running, thus I don't want the frills of an Xwin sys or any added
> visual toys, or to run a telnet or ftp server. I have learned how to login
> remotely using SSH and that's about all I need. I am familiar with the RH
> shells and the way they (RH) have the sys set up, but I guess I could learn
> over with a different dist.
> I digress... Suggestions?
First off, trying to use a .0 release of any Redhat release is,at the
very least, foolish.
I think you would be quite happy with:
Redhat 6.2
Run the Bastille Project scripts
Install your SSH tools
Turn off any additional unnecessary services (uses inetd, not
xinetd) like telnet and ftp.
Update BIND to the latest version.
Install Qmail using LWQ.
Install Tripwire and set it up to report to you by email automatically.
Put it on the internet. (don't do this until you've done all of the
above)
Another options would be to learn FreeBSD, but if you've already
learned where stuff is on a Redhat distribution, you'll appreciate not
having to relearn where everything is by sticking with a RH distro.
And, there are many other ways to do it. I'm just comfortable that
the above gives you a mainstream platform that is as secure as
you can quickly and easily get.
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