Qmail Toaster on CentOS 5
One of the companies I work for has just recently purchased 2 new
servers. The machines came bundled with CentOS "yikes". I wasn't
happy about the fact the servers came up with this s*itty OS.
Though there wasn't a chance to change the OS, the guys in Sofia
lacked the competence and the time to roll on a FreeBSD or
Gnu/Debian installation. Therefore I had to live with it and start
administering 2 new servers running CentOS. Most of the things with
the install and updates went fine with CentOS's software management
software "yum". I had to install apache+php+mysql and a mail
server. I experienced some problems during installing of the qmail
toaster on one of the servers. The others ran fine. The problematic
qmail install was on a machine with 8G of memory. I have never
before installed qmail on a 8G box. So I have to take the time to
play with the soft limits and adjust the right maximum allowed
memory to be allocated. However thanks to God all went fine in
general with the installation of the boxes. The Support in Neterra
couldn't bring up one of the servers online. So they had connected
the machine in a local network with the machine which was already
up, so I accessed the server and thanksfully with God's grace and
guidance I fixed the problematic machine to be viewable/accesible
from the internet. I couldn't get it what exactly caused the
problem but I suspect it was something related with the CentOS's
firewall poicies. Actually the problematic machine missed the
/etc/sysconfig/iptables file so I copied that file from the server
which was already accesible from the net. I also changed a bit of
other stuff on the server, though I couldn't specificly remember
what else I changed. Eventually I have the new machine which is
going to be a future host of
different.bg online. The other machine is
going to host another domain which is already online
prize.bg . This days I feel quite okay,
thanks to God almighty whose mercy towards me is immensly big!
Glory be to you Oh God, Oh Holy of Holiest, Holy Trinity!