[ale] RAID

George Johnson gljay1 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 7 15:32:43 EDT 2004


Doesn't Qmail have a website that dares you to crack it?  I was told
that once but never checked it out.

gj


On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 15:21:51 -0400, James P. Kinney III
<jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> 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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