Perfect Install - Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Questions
 

Hi

Just going through the guide now and have a few (newbie) questions...

1. The partition screenshots don't show the actual partitions you have chosen, or at least I dont think it does as it says Partition #1 and Partition #5 but Partitions 2,3 and 4 aren't visible. In the previous version guide you used /var / and boot. Is this now not required in Ubuntu version 6?

2. on Page 3 you setup a root account but Ubuntu recommends using sudo for root operations instead. Also, I discovered that doing "sudo bash" would stop it asking for passwords. So, is creating a "root" account required? And if so then is it possible to delete the "admin" account setup previously as we would have two accounts with root access?

3. on Page 3 when editing /etc/network/interfaces
You have listed "network" and "broadcast" IP addresses. Are these needed here if not running the server as a DHCP server?

4. Still on Page 3, when editing the hosts file what does...
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
....do, why add localdomain here?

Using this method I couldn't get "hostname" to display my full hostname, even after re-booting. However, hostname -f worked.

To fix this I reverted to the Badger guide that said enter:
echo server1.example.com > /etc/hostname
/bin/hostname -F /etc/hostname

I also noticed that you omitted the alias "server1" from the 127.0.0.1 IP in
hosts in the 6.06 guide compared to the badger guide. I also omitted the servername from localhost in this setup.

5. When we edit vi /etc/fstab and add usrquota and grpquota to the mount points why do we add quota to "/", I thought that "/" is for the OS and that "/var" is for user data. Wouldn't it be quicker just to use quota on "/var" ?

6. on Page 5 when doing the "dpkg-reconfigure postfix" command and getting to the point that says
Other destinations to accept mail for? (blank for none) <-- server1.example.com, localhost.example.com, localhost

On my setup there are two commas before localhost as in

server1.example.com, localhost.example.com, , localhost

Was something removed there by the OS? Is it meant to be there? For my install I removed the additional comma.

7. Page 6. proFTPd setup refers to the link
http://proftpd.linux.co.uk/localsite...userguide.html
....which doesn't work (or didnt for me).

However this one does
http://www.proftpd.org/localsite/Use...userguide.html

8. Page 6, Instead of using Webalizer can we use http://www.awstats.org/ instead? I only ask as Webalizer seems quite old that hasnt been updated in several years.

9. The final stage is getting ISPConfig but the instructions kind of end here. I did the following from the command line...

1. Change to tmp folder
cd /tmp

2. Download ispconfig (got UK location from ispconfig website)
wget http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourc...g-2.2.3.tar.gz

Now you can follow the instructions from: http://www.ispconfig.org/manual_installation.htm lower down the page under the "installation" heading

Other:

I discoverd that using "nano" instead of "vi" was an easier editor (from a windows users point of view) to use.

Cheers
Anim

I've chosen to let the Ubuntu installer do the partitioning, and by default it creates a / and a swap partition. Of course you can choose any other partitioning scheme, as Till did in the Ubuntu 5.10 tutorial. For the tutorial it's not really important.

I highly recommend to create a root account. Of course, you can use sudo, but I don't like that. I wouldn't delete admin - admin is not a second root account, it's a normal user account.

I've never tried without the network and broadcast addresses. Just leave them in there.

Many programs refer to localhost.localdomain instead of just localhost, that's why I added it there.

If you created a /var partition, then you can add that to /var. But in my guide I don't have a /var partition, that's why I add it to /.

I also had this additional comma, it's a bug. I removed it, and you should, too.

I'll correct that...

AWStats doesn't integrate into ISPConfig. If webalizer is quite old, this can also mean it's so good it doesn't need to be updated... :D

Wow, fast response, cheers for the replies.

Anim

Problem...
 

also having a little bit of trouble getting this point to work.

but they don't show the same???

Graveman, the badger guide solved that bit for me, see my comment about it in this thread. No idea why the new method doesnt work tho.

Anim

i tryed that
results are
hostname -f unknown host
hostname server1.example.com

Did you reboot?
Anyway, the result you get is ok, you can move on. :)

finished the howto...
and every things working perfectly..
thank 4 the great howto:) :) :)

So, can I use something else for the domain other than server1.example.com?? Everywhere I go, everyone uses example.com. Does the domain name matter? Is it linked to an actual website? How does that work?

You must use a host and domainname, that has a DNS A-Record pointing to your server.