-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I have downloaded RH8 off of ftp.redhat.com and placed it in CDRs (i think it's the personal version?). Most of my installations are for dedicated closed servers (ie they don't contain shell accounts and most services are "virtualized"). Anyway, up until RH7.3 I've always performed CUSTOM install and selected package sets (ie DNS server for a machine performing only DNS). I've noticed that in 8.0, I can now select package sets even if I specified SERVER install unlike before where it installed pre-selected package sets. Now, it just pre-selects package sets but still allows me to change it. Now my questions: 1. Which is a better option, to continue with CUSTOM or go with SERVER? I don't want to needlessly install packages which won't do anything (example: notice that even if one selects DNS server and nothing else, RH *insists* on installing and running sendmail -- what for??). What do you recommend I do when installing into a machine which will only provide 1 type of service (DNS or WEB server or FTP server)? 2. Is there a list somewhere with details of which RPMs are installed when selecting a package set? This should help in deciding which sets to install. 3. My machines are dedicated servers providing at most 2 types of services (in any combination). It has no shell access except for the sysadmin account. Only 2 consoles are active. Remote access is via ssh only with rootlogin denied. Can I compile the kernel on another machine and just transfer it (together with System.map, vmlinuz, and modules of course)? This would aid in preventing me from having to install kernel sources to all machines (we do compile/dev work on another machine and just transfer binaries to the end server; we prefer stripping anything unneeded from the machine -- talk about extreme paranoia -- but we are waaaay too new to linux to go with Linux from scratch). 4. Any suggestions or howto on setting up our own local RHN-type of update service? I want to download the updates (or mirror the updates.redhat.com site) to a central server and have my servers periodically update from that central server. Thanks in advance for any info/help. M. Yu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBParzQpIBccXnAjgHEQK/bACg/oQtSBwrdVaxxn5mJy/mMEM2baIAmgIJ bWzixI/A8QLvXSwiP+AjFE4D =/kbT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
