SV: Installation questions..

[Anders Andersson, IT]

Just thpought of one more question, how to do handle the time set.
Cant figure out what best, to put bios clock to GNT and then tell
RH to use UTC+1 or use local time. 

/Anders

> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: Anders Andersson, IT [mailto:andersan at LTKALMAR.SE]
> Skickat: den 11 november 2002 12:45
> Till: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Ämne: SV: Installation questions..
> 
> 
> > -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> > Från: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> > Skickat: den 11 november 2002 12:40
> > Till: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Ämne: Re: Installation questions..
> > 
> > 
> > At 10:52 11/11/2002, you wrote:
> > >Server config:
> > >2x 1,4 GHz
> > >1256 Mb
> > >2x 18G scsi/raid1
> > >RH 8.0
> > >The servers will also work as DNS and DNS-cashing servers
> > >
> > >Since I really dont have a clue how MS/SA works regarding language
> > >is there any point installing support for other language 
> ie. swedish
> > >then english?
> > 
> > MS/SA won't make much use of other languages. You can set the 
> > character
> > encoding you want to use (probably ISO-8859-15 in your case) in
> > MailScanner.conf, and then just translate the reports into 
> > Swedish. (Please
> > can you send me the translation results if you do this so I 
> > can add them to
> > the distribution!)
> 
> I sure will do that asap its done....thanks Julian
> 
> > 
> > >What is the most bussy dir for mailscanner so I can put that in the
> > >beginning of hardrive(mqueue/mqueue.in or the 
> /urs/lib/MailScanner)?
> > 
> > Doesn't make any difference these days as the "cylinder/head/sector"
> > address is totally artificial now as they are translated 
> from the real
> > position on the disks.
> > 
> > >Thinking of making separate partitions for mqueue in case I need
> > >to reinstall?
> > 
> > I would advise putting /var/spool into a partition on its 
> > own. That way
> > mqueue+mqueue.in are on the same partition, and sendmail will handle
> > gracefully odd things happening like your quarantine filling up.
> > 
> > You might want to put /var/log on its own too, so rampant 
> > logs don't knock
> > your server out.
> > 
> > >Anything else i should consider or should not do?
> > >
> > >Kind regards
> > >
> > >/Anders
> > 
> > --
> > Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> > jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> > Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
> >                              Southampton SO17 1BJ
> > 
>