On 8/13/05, Bryan Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm setting up a web/mail/source coude server for my open source project > and am using FreeBSD. > > My first concern is security. I read through the appropriate area of the > Handbook and really enjoyed it. However, I do not know what suid, guid, > and the like are. I've look up the man pages, but am still confused. It > seems like the suid bit means that only the file owner can execute the > file. Is this true? Also, does anyone have any security tips? I am new > to all this and so am looking for as much info as possible. I would > like to get a (few) book(s) on FreeBSD and security - any > recommendations?
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mfreeopenbsd/index.html Tip: always keep your system and the programs on it patched and up to date. > > My second concern is performance. I read the tuning man page and was a > little confused. Could anyone help me with this? Reasources and/or > advice would be great. Tip: You need to run with an opt code cache. eAccelerator is in the ports system Tip: When using PHP, Perl, Python et. al. buy the fastest CPU you can. Tip: Lots of RAM. > > I am using Apache/PHP/MySQL, eGroupWare, and SubVersion so far. I also > need an email server. I will need mailing lists. I would like to > support IMAP, but am unfamiliar with it. I understand POP3 as I have > dealt with it for a while. What are the tradeoffs and/or advantages of > IMAP? I know IMAP is supposed to be "newer" and "better", but how? In > addition to mailing lists, contributors will also get e-mail addresses > for the project. I'd like to use ClamAV for e-mail virus protection - > but need some pointers for installation and configuration. > > Right now I am running FreeBSD 5.4, Apache 2.0.54, MySQL 4.1, and > eGroupWare 1.0.0.008. Tip: FreeBSD, Apache 1.3, and PostgreSQL. IMAP is decentralized, the mail stays on the server. With POP3 the client downloads the mail to a local system and that's that... An example of IMAP would be webmail... IMAP can do a lot more too, It blows POP3 out of the water. You can make IMAP work like POP3 too. You should look into LDAP too. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
