sorry for a stupid question, but whats the adress to the mail servers after this install?

thx for the guide

tomas

My first debian server setup and all went fantastically well.

Thank you

Over time your users will install badly written PHP applications and they will get exploited by worms and skript kiddies. The exploits will write spam-mailers and attack programs in /tmp but they won't run. It won't stop a determined attacker, but the kiddies will move on to lower-hanging fruit.

Should not be:

Harddisks are written to from outside to the inside, that is why they are faster on the first sectors than they are on the last sectors (~30%).

So I always put my swap partitions at the start of the harddisks (if I have multiple disks one swap partition at the start of each).

Nagium.

AFAIK, default Debian behaviour is to also install recommended packages after (apt-get install ...). Is it necessary to also install these packages, or the ones that were mentioned here are enough?

The reason why I'm asking is because I am trying to make na minimum install of Debian 3.1

Thank you for your help so far.

Here is the exact message after typing in /etc/network/interfaces

-bash: /etc/netwok/interfaces: Permission denied

I am following your tutorial exactly except instead of using test server1 just using the suggested defaults.

When I try to edit the /etc/network/interfaces I get a response of permission denied. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

David

hello all

I have a problem
when i running mysql is writer error: can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)'

chack that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' exists!

how can I affixed this?

don

Hi!

My name is Andrew. I have lived in Hungary and I want to tell you that many people using Debian Linux in Hungary. I am working at a bank as IT system programmers.

I have never seen such an egzakt and good tutorial as yours. Thank you for helping and congratulations !

When doing apt-get for this part I get the following error, any idea?

Setting up ipopd (2002edebian1-11) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/ipopd.postinst: line 75: /dev/stderr: Permission denied
dpkg: error processing ipopd (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ipopd-ssl:
ipopd-ssl depends on ipopd (>= 4:2002.rc7debian); however:
Package ipopd is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing ipopd-ssl (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
ipopd
ipopd-ssl
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Thank you

While ISPConfig has the potential to be a decent remote management tool, it suffers horribly from mangling Bind9 zone files. MAKE SURE you run named-checkconf and named-checkzone BEFORE using its Bind configuration, as the zone files are horribly mangled (who puts blank lines in their zone files? Bind and its documentation strictly forbid it).

Also be forewarned, if you are using NIS authentication, you will have to manually edit /etc/passwd and /etc/group because ISPConfig does not handle this properly.

Obviously the issues of quota formats 1 and 2 were sidestepped, that can be tricky (depends mostly on your kernel version).... And the issue of XFS and quotas.

WARNING: If XFS is the filesystem you enable quotas for, the above simply will not work in sarge-3.1 with a 2.6.n kernel. Although I still have no idea what does work, I am still researching this issue.

  Good idea to create something like this for the average user.

 It should be noted however that ISPConfig 2.0.7 does not correctly identify the Etch testing branch (Etch is the testing and unstable branches after Sarge stable was released).

There's no need for creating a dev/log socket in the bind9 chroot environment and modifying sysklogd to listen on that too.

bind9 opens /dev/log (the one outside the chroot) before calling chroot(2) => Logging still works over that socket from the chroot environement.
See http://cryptio.net/~ferlatte/blog/2004/10/01/#syslog_and_chroot for more info.

That site also has a nice chroot implementation for bind9 on debian: http://cryptio.net/~ferlatte/blog/config/

"In order to install Postfix with SMTP-AUTH and TLS as well as a POP3 server that also does POP3s (port 995) and an IMAP server that is also capable of IMAPs (port 993) do the following steps:

apt-get install postfix postfix-tls sasl-bin libsasl-modules-plain libsasl2 sasl2-bin libsasl2-modules ipopd-ssl uw-imapd-ssl"

When I'm doing this I get:

# apt-get install postfix postfix-tls sasl-bin libsasl-modules-plain libsasl2 sasl2-bin libsasl2-modules ipopd-ssl uw-imapd-ssl
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package sasl-bin

Any ideas anyone

Nice article. A few things:

1. You need to fix some permissions. Root is world readable by default, so are users home dirs.
2. (also mentioned above) Why the packages from debdot?
3. I don't think Sarge comes with SSH installed by default
4. ProFTPD? Euck. vsftpd is safer for (the most) cases which don't need the extra functionality.
5. Your postfix config is a little lax on hostnames (do they exist, etc)

In addition to your howto very nice, but why use apache2 from debdot and not the debian mirrors.

Debian Sarge 3.1 ( testing ) includes apache2

Same for the  install HTML::Parser ( apt-get install libhtml-parser-perl )Â
and the others..