Starting from scratch

[Billy Pumphrey]

Hhmm... thank you for all of the replies.  I was just about to install red
hat 9 just because I have the media already and it seemed to me it would be
stable.  Majority people are talking Centos.

I will go centos if everyone thinks it is good.
Is the mailwatch you are speaking of this: http://www.mailwatch.com/  ??
I have not used centos before at all, is it a simple setup such as red hat?
Also I will have to look into up2date as I have not heard of it either.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stewart M. Ives [mailto:ivessm at SOFTECUSA.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 7:41 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Starting from scratch
>
> Ref OS question:
>
> I've been using FC2 without any problems what so ever.  up2date works and
> keeps the box updated.
>
> I also run MailWatch on it.  Great program to get an overall look at what
> is
> coming into the box and to keep records.  If you ever needed something to
> justify your job MailWatch will do it for you.  It will show what is
> happening and make you shine in that it is all being taken care of.
>
> I'll probably move up to FC4 a while after it is released.
>
> stew
>
>
> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: Res <res at AUSICS.NET>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Sent: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 18:58:01 +1000
> Subject: Re: Starting from scratch
>
> > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Peter Russell wrote:
> >
> > > I reckon centos 4.0 (which is just rhel without the license and groovy
> > > installer) is the go, or buy a red hat license and use Red Hat
> > > Proffessional 4.0
> > >
> > > Red Hat 9 is too old now...
> >
> > Its tried and proven, we have RH9 boxes with manual kernel upgrades when
> > security dictates, they are unbreakable, centos has had to be
> > rebooted a few times, I have no intention of changing my mail
> > servers off RH9 because  i couldnt break the damn thing if i tried
> > its so stable.
> >
> > >
> > > Billy Pumphrey wrote:
> > >> I searched the mailscanner archives at
> > >> http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?
> S1=mailscanner&D=0&T=0&H=0&O=T&F=&S
> > >> =
> > >>
> > >> But I could not locate updates information.  I also tried to find the
> > >> recently topic of "Complete Build".  I know that there is a ton of
> > >> information in there but I just could not find it.  I know that a lot
> is
> > >> talked about what to run it on, however if I may inquire on my setup
> as
> > >> Linux is not my environment of expertise.  I will try to make my
> questions
> > >> short.  My main and pretty much only question is what versions should
> I
> > >> use?
> > >>
> > >> What I have now:
> > >> 550mhz
> > >> 384 RAM
> > >> IDE hard drive (desktop)
> > >>
> > >> I will be moving to:
> > >> Server
> > >> Dual 600PIII
> > >> 1024 RAM
> > >> 3x9.1GB RAID 5 Hard drives
> > >>
> > >> What I have now:
> > >> Redhat 9 (Shrike)
> > >> MailScanner 4.25
> > >> Spamassassin 2.61
> > >> MailStats for statistics
> > >> Running RulesDuJour
> > >> Running other rules too
> > >> Sendmail version ??
> > >> Sophos virus scanning
> > >>
> > >> In question to move to:
> > >> Should I still use Redhat 9?  Seems to work fine
> > >> MailScanner 4.40.11
> > >> Sendmails latest version 8.13.4
> > >> Spamassassin latest version 3.0.2
> > >> Different rule sets from the web sites
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