Re: Which RedHat disto works best with GreyLi

Just curious, What do you need to patch?
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 02:35:00PM -0600, Dennis Wynne wrote:
> That is two votes for CentOS - sounds good to me.
> 
> Looks like it comes with what I will need for greylist "in the box" (or on 
> the ISO) as well - but still have to patch it.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Dennis
> 
> 
> ===== Original Message from [email protected] (Wayne Walker) at 2/06/06 
> 2:25 pm
> >I would recommend RHEL4/CentOS4.  Here are the versions of the things
> >you mentioned from my CentOS 4 box (CentOS4 is an almost exact copy of
> >RHEL).
> >
> >[wwalker@bevo ~]$ rpm -qa | egrep '(mysql|perl|sendmail|httpd)'
> >mysql-4.1.12-3.RHEL4.1
> >mysql-server-4.1.12-3.RHEL4.1
> >sendmail-8.13.1-2
> >perl-5.8.5-24.RHEL4
> >
> >[wwalker@bevo ~]$ perl -V | grep -i thread
> >archname=i386-linux-thread-multi
> >-Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dsiteprefix=/usr -Duseshrplib -Dusethreads
> >
> >I prefer to support RedHat so I buy RHEL licenses, but use CentOS
> >because I can't stand up2date.
> >
> >CentOS is also much more up to date than RHEL in the base install
> >usually.
> >
> >But with either one, you must do an update after install (yum update OR
> >up2date -u)
> >
> >Wayne
> >
> >On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 12:52:00PM -0600, Dennis Wynne wrote:
> >> I am wanting to put a LINUX Sendmail box in front of my real (non LINUX)
> >> mail server and have it greylist and pass on (via SMTP) to the real
> >server.
> >> I have other LINUX boxes here (web servers and DNS servers).
> >>
> >> I have been working off and on (mostly off) to get a newer SendMail,
> >> threaded Perl, MySQL, etc on an older RH box.
> >>
> >> Now that I am back on this project more full time, it looks like a mess
> >:-)
> >> I got sendmail compiled but get strange errors, etc. I am thinking of
> >wiping
> >> the system and just starting over.
> >>
> >> Which RH distribution is new enough for me to avoid all the
> >> patching/updating/debugging - if any?  I assume it will have to be
> >> pre-Fedora.  If not RH, then another LINUX?  I usually use an older RH
> >> because I know it and can spend all my time on what I need to do and not
> >> re-learning the OS.
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Dennis
> >>
> >>
> >>
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