[Nelug] Re: Advice on setting up a home server (Daniel Tweedy)

Mon Apr 18 16:16:17 UTC 2005

Hi All,

I've been a bit quiet on here of late so here goes...

I've never used webmin in a production environment but
I've got it running for a dabble under both Fedora and
Gentoo(x).

I've got an old PC with a 200GB drive at home running
fedora and just stash all of my stuff on a samba
share. It's interesting what your saying about
courier-imap. I could have swore it was in there but
having a look again it's cyrus & dovecot thats
included.

SUSE 9.2 Pro is a good workstation OS, and it comes
with the LDAP drivers etc... Might be worth a look...

Craig.

 --- Nick Davis <nick.davis at alertyou.net> wrote: 
> Daniel,
>    I have found Fedora + webmin straightforward.
> Debian I found pain in the *** cos loads of old or
> broken packages.
> Others in this user group like Craig, have found
> SUSE friendly.
> 
> mysql you can find the right rpms if u look around.
> fedora.redhat.com or 
> mysql 's own site. Don't forget to get ALL the rpms 
> - mysql client. 
> server, and tools. This could be your problem?
> 
> Problem with webmin is too small user-base 2 find
> and fix bugs. I find 
> it OK if u don't do too many unusual things. I like
> its handling of perl 
> module installation, mysql and DNS configuration. U
> can get virtualmin 4 
> virtual hosts but beware of bugs in IP-based
> hosting.
> 
> http://bluequartz.org/  is the old Cobalt sysadmin
> GUI ported to Fedora. 
> Looks interesting?
> 
> Nick
> 
> 
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> >Today's Topics:
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> >   1. Advice on setting up a home server (Daniel
> Tweedy)
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> >Message: 1
> >Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 16:36:06 +0100
> >From: Daniel Tweedy <daniel_tweedy at yahoo.co.uk>
> >Subject: [Nelug] Advice on setting up a home server
> >To: nelug at mailman.lug.org.uk
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> >Hi All,
> >
> >I have been trying to set up a home server for a
> good few months now, 
> >been through various distros and not really found
> one that did 
> >everything as I require, so I thought that I would
> pose the question to 
> >you all and see what you think or recommendations
> you may have if any.
> >
> >My first attempt was as follows.
> >
> >Fedora Core 2
> >Webmin, Apache 2, php 4, mysql 4
> >
> >first problem was not being able to get webmin to
> work correctly, kept 
> >breaking the samba shares after install, and also
> no mysql 4 rpm, so I 
> >built it from source from a help doc I found
> unfortunatley it failed on 
> >could connect on the socket.
> >
> >Attempt number 2 & 4 was:-
> >
> >I have tried this a couple of times as this is what
> I thought would be 
> >the best route, and being able to add more things
> at a later date to the 
> >mix.
> >
> >Fedora Core 3
> >Apache 2, php 4, mysql 4 and vhcs (www.vhcs.net)
> >
> >the problem here was with vhcs and it being a
> nightmare to configure as 
> >it needed all sort of different dependancies most
> of where were hard to 
> >find, it needs courier-imap but I wasn't able to
> find that rpm and 
> >building it from source vhcs didn't like to use it,
> not to mention 
> >various problems with MIME::Entity.
> >
> >Attempt 3 was the sme server from www.contribs.org
> based on red hat 7.3 
> >but comes with all the necessary stuff, but lacking
> somewhat in other 
> >areas, i.e. no c compiler, cd is only 600mb but
> does the hosting job 
> >that I was wanting but nothing else that I was
> wanting aswell.
> >
> >Attempt 5 was ubuntu, it seems a really nice
> desktop linux and I do 
> >really like it, but cant ssh into it not sure how
> to get that working, 
> >and mythtv package that is in apt doesn't work
> really, currently still 
> >playing with it not been able to get it to play aac
> audio, althought 
> >gtkpod does and works great with my ipod something
> I never been able to 
> >get to work with any other linux distro.
> >
> >If I had to list everything I am wanting it would
> be as follows.
> >
> >Server capable of being colocated (it wont ever be
> tho)
> >Capable of adding domains easily to the server and
> removing them.
> >Adding user and creating ftp accounts.
> >Adding mail accounts also.
> >Maybe be able to run vhcs (www.vhcs.net) if you
> dont have any other 
> >alternatives to try, sorry but webmin isn't very
> nice.
> >able to install and run icecast streaming radio
> server, and xmms 
> >hopefull with aac audio support ?
> >
> >I have a pvr350 tv tuner card in my linux box, so I
> would like to be 
> >able to install and run mythtv have never had it
> working yet so that 
> >would be a godsend to see it working.
> >
> >I also have a pioneer 108 dvd writer so support for
> writting dvds also 
> >as mythtv can burn recorded programs straight to
> dvd.
> >
> >
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