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The Perfect Setup - Fedora Core 3 This is a detailed description about the steps to be taken to setup a Fedora Core 3 based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (web server (SSL-capable), mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS!), DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.). In addition to that I will show how to use Debian's package manager apt on an rpm-based system because it takes care of package dependencies automagically which can save a lot of trouble.

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Wonderful guides. I tried the setup guide for Debian. I have a Debian system running apache & ntp. Next step would've been dns then mail server. I previously tried setting up dns on Debian (sarge) myself, following the docs and file comments so I ended up with a chroot'd bind. Didn't work, so I gave up on it. Then ran into your wonderful guides, and tried again. Just the dns part. Kept running into a permission problem, when trying to start bind. I probably got the permissions or ownership wrong in the subdirectories that need to be created for chrooting bind, but with some googling, I also found notes related to the error message about permissions when attempting to start bind and some bug in Sarge/Debian.

The error message is something like, failed to start, and then something about a permission problem. Don't have the log anymore since Debian Sarge removes syslog files after a week, and I de-installed bind, planning to try reinstalling it at a later date after removing the subdirectories.

Keep the guides coming. If/when I get it all working, I'll be sending a token showing my appreciation.

One more thing: The server currently running apache, I plan on using that as the mail server (light) and one of two dns servers. The second dns server will be located on someone else's subnet. The apache server serves multiple sites via virtual names. What would you name the hostname of the server? [email protected] would be out, because that would become the domain name for each virtual web site as well, right? To use something like ns1@somedomain, then it would be suggested to use a separate box for dns altogether? Or is this still feasible?

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Have you tried checking the authors website for Debian Perfect Setup?

I have referenced it several times for the latest release, 3.1.

http://www.falkotimme.com/howtos/perfect_setup_debian_sarge/index.php

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I havent used debian, though everyone i know who has always raves about apt-get. It doesnt seem to work as well on Fedora - i used yum to do what apt-get does (and also to keep my entire system up to date), but otherwise, a really awesome document...(well, the first half - which is where i am now.