At 16:41 2000-09-09 -0500, David W. Tamkin wrote:
that is welcome to take care of all my stresses and responsibilities for the
next couple years while I learn how to install and manage it.)
It isn't all that difficult to set up. Most distributions would do a fair
job of setting themselves up the way you need them right out of the
box. Or you could buy a system pre-configured. That's all another story
though.
If you set it up reasonably the first go, Linux is pretty much a hands off
system - you're not rebooting it and doing maintenance all the time as you
might expect to have to do with a Windows box (no, I'm not bashing here - I
run windows for my regular desktop machines - everything has it's
place). While a periodic backup is a good thing to do, depending on what
you do with the system, you could get by making a backup only every so
often, which is still more often than 99.9% of the people out there do
backups. Administration is pretty minimal once you get it going.
I run multiple domains, several mailing lists, etc, from my systems, and I
probably spend more time diddling with procmail rules than any system
administration. Read my system status reports and make sure things aren't
going goofy, but then, they never really do, because this is Linux, not NT...
So the deal has always been to call procmail from .forward, and it would file
my incoming email. Of the three sites where I have shell accounts, that's
functional on only one (and I'll be losing access to it around November 1).
By any chance, have you considered using fetchmail (or a plain .forward to
one account) to consolodate your mail to one account? I did this in order
to bring all my filtering into one nice monolithic procmail config, freeing
me of the need to replicate bits of it all over the place.
On the third, things worked dandily until recently. There were four shell
ick, ick, ick! Sounds like you should find yourself another ISP that has
things a bit better organized.
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Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
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