Starting from scratch

[Steen, Glenn]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list 
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Billy Pumphrey
> Sent: den 5 april 2005 16:41
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Starting from scratch
> 
> 
> 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/  ??
Probably not:-). Look at http://mailwatch.sourceforge.net/
instead.

> I have not used centos before at all, is it a simple setup 
> such as red hat?
It isessentially that yes.

> Also I will have to look into up2date as I have not heard of 
> it either.
Um, how did you keep your RH9s updated with the latest errata
(before it going End Of Life about a year ago) then? Now you'll
probably be using yum and fedoralegacy, but... Or haven't you
been keeping up on the tools/apps side? Wouldn't be a good idea
precisely...

-- Glenn
> 
> > -----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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