We are updating this howto The legacy howto can be found at www.old.hornfordassociates.com
We are updating this howto to support CentOS 5. Red Hat released the RHEL 5 source in April 2007, and in early April the CentOS project provided a final release of CentOS 5. We are in the process of running through the base installation & detailed configuration to confirm all the directions.
The following How-to is a Work-in-progress based on CentOS 5. It will have typos, spelling errors, gaps & errors until we have completed a detailed run-through and updated the steps. While this is underway we are mainatianing the legacy open-source howtos at www.old.hornfordassociates.com.
For an overview discussion of why these applications were used look here. Core application list:
- CentOS 5 Linux (Base Operating System)
- Samba (File Sharing)
- Windows 2003
- Microsoft Exchange 2003 (2007 Update Pending our internal update)
- Microsoft Active Directory (Directory Services)
Note: Microsoft Installation & configuration not in scope
- PostFix (SMTP Mail)
- Fetchmail (Optional Mail Retrieval)
- Amavisd (Mail Cleaning Manager)
- Spam Assassin (Spam Protection)
- ClamAV (AntiVrus & Malware Protection)
- MySQL (Database)
- Bind or Windows 2003 DNS (DNS)
- Webmin (System Management)
The following link provides step-by-step instructions to install and perform a base configuration of a CentOS 5 server.
These steps are common to several CentOS How-tos
We no longer maintain the Debian option for this How-to.
We stopped working with Debian during the long, painful transition from Debian 2.0 in 1998 to Debian 3.0 in 2002 and Debian 3.1 in 2005. The Debian project's long struggle with responsible release cycles, odd personality battles and obscure internal fights caused us to look elsewhere.
We follow the Debian project closely, hoping for the development of a reasonable release cycle, and a decline in internal politics. We are reminded of Steve Jobs statement to the Macintosh team "real artists ship".
Debian 4, shipped on the day this section was composed (8 April 2007). To help support Debian we maintain a bittorrent peer for the Debian Network Install and the 3 DVD Debian set.
