Instant dummy: RedHat 9

[Nilsen]

Thx Skuzzy, im thinking about installing it on an old server, is it light/fast if you dont  install all the useless crap. Im gonna use it as a file/e-mailserver.

[SunKing]

Originally posted by DmdMac
LOL!!

maybe it was debian. I can't remeber. It was one that you had to setup every device in command line...

[straffo]

// one-liner hat on

Originally posted by Skuzzy
Yeah Mac, Slackware is GUI-challenged, which is fine by me.  I prefer a CLI over a GUI anyday of the week.  Immediately after installing I;

cd /usr
rm -fr X11R6 openwin

No sense in wasting disk space.  

wtf did you install it ?
just to remove it after ?

// one-liner hat off

hahem ... bota-bing ?

[MrCoffee]

Originally posted by Skuzzy
Yeah Mac, Slackware is GUI-challenged, which is fine by me.  I prefer a CLI over a GUI anyday of the week.  Immediately after installing I;

cd /usr
rm -fr X11R6 openwin

No sense in wasting disk space.  

LOL, skuzzy. I started out with Slackware as well.  Pre 1.0 kernel, was .xx something beta kernel. The install was flakey at best. Oh those were the days:) Then I went to Yagrasil Linux and RedHat etc... I've tried most of the Linux vendors over the years if only to check them out. So far I like Suse Linux the best as a consumer product, also cas its cheaper and has excellant value/price. I try to stay up to date with all the Linux stuff but its grown so fast over the years, its amazing really.

Redhat is the standard. Many of the new vendors are more user friendly like Mandrake.

BSD is BSD, still good and fast.

[Skuzzy]

Nah straffo, the directories get created whether you install X or not.

Nilsen, when you say "file" server, it means a lot of things to me.  I imagine you are going to be using Samba.  For Email, are you talking about POP and/or SMTP?  For POP,you might want to check Qualcomm's Qpopper.  Good product.  Of course, for SMTP, Sendmail is my choice.

FreeBSD can be a pretty clean installation.  I do like the update method they use.  The 4.8 STABLE is pretty rock solid.  You'll need to tweak some things (sysctl or kernel build) to get it really lean and mean.  5.1 looks very insteresting and I am looking forward to trying it when they get it out of Beta.

MrCoffee, the latest Slackware build is pretty rock solid and installs painlessly.  I read good things about Suse, but I do like Slack's file system layout.  It reads more like traditional UNIX's.
I am used to re-building kernels and hate not being able to.  There are sooooo many things you can do to increase te performance of the various Linux's, and, of course, things that need to be done to secure any UNIX out of the box.

[Nilsen]

Basicly im gonna have ALOT of skiing videos made with my DV camera and pictures on the server and edit them with either my winxp notebook or my 15" powerbook. The server is gonna be online all the time so i can access the videos and images from different locations. When im at home i will connect to the server via gigabit ethernet and wifi.

The e-mail thingy will not be implemented for some time yet and is therfore not the most important thing.

So i need a rock solid operating system so i can leave the server on 24/7 even when im away. It must handle wifi / gigabit ethernet and some large drives (2 or 3 250gb) + ofcourse internet connection. Anything else would just take up space.

[Skuzzy]

Linux or FreeBSD would be fine for that Nilsen.

I have a Linux router at home I built, running DNS, Samba, Sendmail, Fetch/POP and Apache.

It's been up for over a year now, no problems at all.  I used Linux as Linux has a better implementation of IPTables, and FreeBSD (4.6 - 4.8) has just implemented IPTables.

[LePaul]

Well somehow its up...I went in on console, recalled linuxconf and that wouldnt come out.  Somehow I recalled typing "setup" brings some config program up.  Set firewall to none, turned apache on...voila.  Well, so far anyways

[Udie]

I can remember the part of today when I didn't have a headache.  Why oh why!? did I read this whole thread?!:confused:

[Nyx]

I used to use RedHat, now i use SuSE.

I'm very happy with the change.

[LePaul]

Originally posted by dfl8rms
From the command / terminal window:

Type:
runlevel

ps -ef | grep xinet

netstat -an | grep "LISTEN "

iptables -L

For the last one you will need to be root or root equivalent.  Let me know what the output is.  Also you may want to run
"tail -100 /var/log/messages" to see if there are any clues there as to what's happening.

netstat -an | grep "LISTEN"

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:32768           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:3306            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:111             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:10000           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:80              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:23              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:25            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:443             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     1485   /dev/gpmctl
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     1533   /tmp/.iroha_unix/IROHA
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     1607   /tmp/.font-unix/fs7100
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     1417   /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

and...

iptables -L

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

[trolla]

bulll****e for plain work(office,exel , etc... and student working linux works very fine.


for fun (games) i use windows, for real work and projects i use linux, that is the only and free worlds way to work.

[Nilsen]

thx alot skuzzy

Does anyone know if i should consider some special cooling and or cpu for a server that would be up and running 24/7 ?

Im gonna have to get all the parts as cheap as possible because of incomming baby and all so i may have to get some of it second hand. The only thing i have atm is 2 brand new 250gb WD S-ATA HD's and a 52x cdrom