Re: Server installation

[John Summerfield <summer os2 ami com au>]

> >
> > What is wrong with RedHat? What does RedHat consider to be a server?
> >
> > I chose to install a server and what did I get? K-office and
> > couple of dozen truck loads of junk.
> >
> > No DNS
> > No DHCP
> > No sendmail. (ISDN)
> > It Still Does Nothing!
> >
> > FTP, telnet and more useless junk flows all lover the machine.
> > Not a deasent network program on the whole so called "server
> > installation". No wonder, people don't try Linux (RedHat) more
> > then once and then sware by hillbilly for the rest of their life!
> >
> > This is (was) my last try with RedHat. From now on it is Debian.
> >
> > By  all !
> > Kindest regars for all but RedHat.
> >
> -------
> I don't agree with this sentiment in the very least. I think the problem
> that I have always had with RedHat is the limitation of my knowledge on how
> to make these things work and so I have worked hard to understand as much as
> I can so I can stop blaming others for that which I don't know.
> 
> I think RedHat is installing the minimum for a working web server when you
> choose - server installation.

If the 'server install" meas "web server" then that's what it should say.

If it's a general-purpose server (which is what I thought) then it should install pretty much all the server software plus whatever's needed to configure it, and that probably includes everything up to the basic KDE and GNOME stuff.

I had a machine I could play with when I installed 6.2 and I tried the server install. I decided it was next to useless (too much missing) and started afresh with a custom install.

A general-purpose server needs to have 

File & print services 	- LPD, Samba, Ghostscript, NFS
DNS 			- BIND
DHCPD
Mail			- sendmail, POP and maybe IMAP servers
sshd, maybe telnet, rsh
Firewall		- in a small office it might be the gateway to somehere, and in any event it needs to defend itself
Database		- Postgresql and/or mysql
Fax software		- mgetty and friends or efax
Network management software
Backup software
Maybe news server
Maybe web server


All this should be in the install list; an installer has the option of deleting it. THere's no reason it all has to e started immediately, and some packages are not useful until they're configured.



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