[Greylist-users] Which RedHat disto works best with GreyLi

[Dennis Wynne]

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 wwalker at bybent.com (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 at 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 at 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
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Greylist-users mailing list
>> Greylist-users at lists.puremagic.com
>> http://lists.puremagic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/greylist-users
>
>--
>
>Wayne Walker
>
>www.unwiredbuyer.com - when you just can't be by the computer
>
>wwalker at bybent.com                    Do you use Linux?!
>http://www.bybent.com                 Get Counted!  http://counter.li.org/
>Perl - http://www.perl.org/           Perl User Groups - http://www.pm.org/
>Jabber:  wwalker at jabber.gnumber.com   AIM:     lwwalkerbybent
>IRC:     wwalker on freenode.net
>_______________________________________________
>Greylist-users mailing list
>Greylist-users at lists.puremagic.com
>http://lists.puremagic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/greylist-users