I missed this post and meant to reply:
I love Webmin and cannot function with out it when I take the mon, kb
and mouse off the servers. :)
The only reason I was doing it by hand again is that Webmin is a better
config editor than condig creator and works best when the file is right
to start with. I had broken it so bad webmin was having a rough time of
it and the files were a mess. It is a good test of system sanity I find.
Webmin works fantastic once you know what you're doing in Linux WRT sys
admin already. It is not much help for a non-expert. Being non-expert, I
had a lot of trouble using bind and apache with it. You should see it
now though! Looks beautiful and everything works nice.
I also successfully beat off my first trojan/virus attack Thur, which
would not likely have done a lot of damage I am sure, but it was making
it slow and noisy to work as it brute force tried to hack SSH. I added
a "drop rule" to the Linux Firewall. This was so beyond me before (now
it seems so simple, its stupid), I would just sit through it and wait
until the infected comp shut down and the noise stopped, like last week
when someone tried the same thing on MySQL and all I could do was turn
off MySQL - sad eh?.
I read an article a coulple of weeks ago in which the author made the
following statement.
"Linux is incredibly easy to use."
(HUH?)
He qualified it by continuing with: "but incredibly difficult to learn".
Put that way I have to agree. Once you know what you need to do, there
are not really that many hoops to jump through. Finding the hoops though....
Adding the drop rule was made easy with Webmin, once I knew what I had
to do.
The silence in my logs is deafening :) - I love it.
Scy
Howard Krakower wrote:
You might want to try using webmin http://www.webmin.com/ as a
configuration tool - I've used it successfully for a number of years.
It isn't as powerful a control panel as Plesk or C-Pan, but it does
work well (mail handling through Plesk is better, and you can frame
forward one domain to another).
Howard
Thursday, April 13, 2006, 2:23:55 AM, sberaud wrote:
s> I agree Howard, there must be a better way. I was considering using my
s> ISP to be DNS host for me, and I am still considering it.
s> It occurs to me that the configuration I'm now using that works and
s> which a few of you kindly tested is exactly the configuration I had when
s> I first posted to the list about this problem.
s> The config is it is not sane.
s> It defies all the docs and all of your sage advice. Further, having
s> gotten the .com working with the .net, then using the same dns config
s> and for a new entry in vhosts.conf for the .org , causes it all to come
s> crashing down, and nothing works.
s> If I config it with sane defaults... all sites stop working and instead
s> the login screen for my router becomes broadcast to the world. Somehow I
s> don't think this is supposed to happen.
s> I have suspected the router to be somewhat less than stellar in its
s> operation (it uses asp after all), and wonder if it is causing
s> conflicts? The reason I ask is, while I may be rusty, this is working
s> out like I was a complete ham fisted hack. Yes DNS and Vhosts are
s> somewhat complicated, but this is getting beyond stupid (or I am).
s> I also know this isn't right as the php breadcrumb trail on my site is
s> still broken, and it depends on proper resolution.
s> I am finding this all rather disappointing and frustrating.
s> Howard Krakower wrote:
Somehow it seems to me that there must be an easier way - I have a
number of domains that I host on my server, and I've never been
through all this. At one time I set up an NT3.51 box with 15 IP's, and
two of them were considered as DNS servbers (primary and secondary).
Then I osted my own DNS. Later, I switched to a linux box and had the
DNS handled by my ISP (Trytel, now Ottawa Telecom). Further down the
road, I'm now using leased machines in a datacenter, and I log into
their DNS server to make the changes I need. My linux servers are
running RH8 and Plesk 7.1 as a control panel. It's a no-brainer, and
best of all, i don't get calls telling me that my server is off when
my router dropped. The added benefit is that I have great bandwidth
and I serve pages at the same speed as any of the major players. The
cost is actually less to use a datacenter than it was to run the
server out of my house.
Howard
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