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On 29 Jul 2002 at 12:35, Bulent Murtezaoglu wrote: > > Hi, I occasionally train people on this and the advice that will work > for you depends on what exactly you are after and how you like to > learn. If you enjoy reading as much as playing around the best advice > I can give you is the following: > > -- Understand how DNS works. This is crucial for understanding most > of the 'virtual' stuff that goes on. Easy to do as there's a good > book (DNS and BIND by Albitz and Liu) but a disturbing number of > people demonstrate a lack of clue in this regard (I won't name > companies here). [grin] ... have the book, haven't perused it in detail. > -- Once armed with the above, you need a basic understanding of SMTP, > ftp, and http. Then pick the packages for each, and learn to make > them do what you want. I use sendmail, proftpd and apache > respectively. any comments on qmail or procmail vs sendmail welcome. I've heard Bad Things about sendmail's complexity but it _is_ the standard ... what do you use for MLM? mailman? > If you know all this, you can just skip the pre-packaged installs and > do an apt-get install sendmail proftpd apache (and possibly bind) and > you'll be on your way. will I need sourcecode for apache to set up suEXEC options for virtual hosting in my own choice of directory tree (i.e. DocRoot in /www-data instead of the default /var/www)? > There will be other equally valid answers that recommend some easy > plug and chug solution, but if you follow the above advice you'll > actually _start_ from the point where you understand what you are > doing. Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-520-290-5038 / fax 1-208-248-3124 --------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
