[ale] RAID

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 14:37, Brandon Colbert wrote:

> >>
> James, you was right; all of the logs were cleared out. I know I 
> shouldn't installed that stupid free hosting program (based on cgi). 
> http://www.myidealscript.com  The server that got cracked was my first 
> fully operational Linux webserver. Oh well, back to the drawing board. 
> Now I can rebuild it and apply what I have learned since then. 
> Security!!! Security!!! Security!!!
> 
> I guess I need to replace Sendmail. Which one is the best: sendmail, 
> postfix, or qmail?

If you are new to sysadmin stuff, sendmail will put you in the nut
house! Both postfix and qmail have solved many of the original, built-in
security woes of sendmail. Which one to use is almost handled by which
distro you choose to install. Debian can install all 3, Suse does
sendmail and postfix as does RedHat and Fedora. Qmail is usually a
external package for most distros. Mandrake may install it but I haven't
done a Mandrake install in a long time. Luckily, there are auto scripts
for qmail that handle getting all the plugins setup and the compile
going. 

Dig around on freshmeat for qmail for info on that install script.

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