Ray Leventhal wrote:
As a breather from the
"thread-now-wider-than-my-headers-window-in-thunderbird" conversation
re: mixing repos, I have a question regarding a machine I'm about to put
online. :)
I run a web hosting company and my secondary (primary to the world) DNS
box died from a massive rootkit/hack last night. It was running an old
Slackware 9.1 installation and I will be completely cleaning those
drives sector-by-sector. After which I'll be installing CentOS 5 on
that hardware.
CentOS 5 is a .0 release, you might be better served using CentOS 4.5
which has had much more tme to prove itself as a DNS Server. 4.5 also
has a good bit of time left on updates to (till Feb 29th, 2012) so you
shouldn't worry to much about it becoming obsolete.
As it will be a production server and this is my first foray into
CentOS/SELinux in a production environment I was hoping to get a
recommended list of what to include and, more specifically, what *not*
to include from the distro CDs
As others have said, start with a bare minimal install and add as you
need to. Unless you do a custom kickstart, you'll certainly want to go
through and remove some of the packages that are in the default install
but aren't really necessary for a single task server (e.g. bluez-utils,
NetworkManager, etc).
I will be doing a text based install, hoping to avoid the installation
of X. Other than BIND and vsftpd, I don't think I need much.
Why do you need vsftpd? Plain text FTP could prove very dangerous.
Maybe you should take this chance to switch over to something more
secure like SFTP. The nice thing about sftp is it's up and running
straight out of the box since SSH is enabled by default.
This
machine will be pulling zone files from my primary web server and
storing some archive files and backups for me.
I'm dilligently R`ingTFMs, and will continue to.... I'd sure be
appreciative of any jumpstart help and/or any pitfalls of which to be
cognizant.
Good luck,
Jay
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Jay Lee <jlee@xxxxxxx>
Network/Systems Administrator
Information Technology Department
Philadelphia Biblical University
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