Istvan:
I would imagine that having a firewall/router running on the same box as
any system (qmail, apache, whatever) will add a certain level of
complexity. I'm not saying it can't be done (I'm an amature sysadmin at
best), I'm just saying that the Qmail Toaster install for CentOS was
packaged to do one primary thing. If you add other things to it, you
increase the level of complexity, and therefore the possibility that it
will break. Why not just put the firewall/router on a different box? I
would imagine that the opportunity costs alone would have been worth it,
having watched you battle with your Fedora install over the last month.
That's just my 2 cents. I used to try and make my PI 166 box do
everything several years ago - I was convinced I could make it work (and
actually did!), but four years and a lot of wisdom later, I decided that
it was just too easy to buy another box and split-out some of the tasks
- if only to reduce the complexity for myself. My PI 166 now makes a
great backup box and Samba file server. My spiffy new (new to me) P4
1.8GHz ($186 on eBay) makes a rocking Qmail Toaster box. But far and
away the best investment I have made to date was my PIX501 ($300 on
eBay). That was a financial stretch for a cheap guy like me, but it has
more than paid for itself over the last three years, because I never
have to do anything to it - it just works - no moving parts, nothing to
break, you get the idea... but I ramble. Sorry about that. I'm glad your
CentOS install is working.
Peace,
-Mike
Istvan Kope wrote:
After spending 1 month trying to make Qmail-toaster on a Fedora Core 4
x86_64, I gave up and I tryied CentOS 4.2 x86_64. When I started to
think the life will be easyer with CentOS I got stucked with a stupid
compilation problem of courier-imap. Based on my Fedora experience
with Qmail-Toaster, I decided to not spend another month trying to
find a solution on the mailing lists, but reinstalling all by
following step by step the installation instructions.
aaaaAAAANNNDDD... Miracle!! It really works!! [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BUT, I still didn't achieve my objective. My famous server has to run,
of course, Qmail-Toaster, Samba and has to be a router too with a
firewall. Now my question:
According to my previous experiences I presume that there are packages
which creates problems to Qmail.
So is it possible that a Qmail-Toaster server to run Samba and be a
router with a firewall in the same time?
If yes, please share your experience!
If no, just let me know!!
Thank you!
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