Re: Spamassassin Distro
Tony Melia wrote: Hi, I am looking at setting up a new linux box dedicated to spamassassin via amavisd. I am wondering what the best distro is to do this on, is there a particular distro you guys can recommend? I am not looking for an out-of-the-box solution, but one that spam cleaning is almost native to! I don't think such a beast exists :) What would probably make sense is to use a distro that: - you are comfortable with - that is easy to keep up to date - that has a reasonable release cycle Something like RHE or one of the clones (Centos for example) would make sense, or maybe Debian. Avoid Fedora - it's release cycle is far too short for a server OS Avoid distros with odd notions about package management and updates - servers should be up all the time (or as close to it as possible), so you really do not want to have to recompile half the OS just to update one or two minor elements Just my two cents ... Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Quality Business Hosting Colocation http://www.blacknight.ie/ Tel. 1850 927 280 Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Fax. +353 (0) 59 9164239
Re: Spamassassin Distro
On Samstag, 12. November 2005 07:04 Tony Melia wrote: I am wondering what the best distro is to do this on Such questions usually start flame wars. Simply use what you know. We use SUSE, because we know the glitches there, and they tend to work. Now, since opensuse.org started, they have bleeding edge versions of all packages, which is nice if you like to have the newest stuff. mfg zmi -- // Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc --- it-management Michael Monnerie // http://zmi.at Tel: 0660/4156531 Linux 2.6.11 // PGP Key: lynx -source http://zmi.at/zmi2.asc | gpg --import // Fingerprint: EB93 ED8A 1DCD BB6C F952 F7F4 3911 B933 7054 5879 // Keyserver: www.keyserver.net Key-ID: 0x70545879 pgpnHWC3lnCdh.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: Spamassassin Distro
Tony, One thing that you need to keep in mind with the question as well. All distro's are thoroughly tested and sometimes custom compiled. That isn't necessarily bad but it means that whatever you get out of the box isn't new. As mentioned you can go with bleeding edge (opensuse, fedora, etc) but do you want to run bleeding edge in production. OTOH you can choose something like suse or RH but it goes back to the out of date issue. We personally run RHEL 4 (for no other reason than that's what we know) and we don't use the include packages but rather download SA (and dependencies) from CPAN. So, my answer is pick a distro you are comfortable with and just install the tools you need for that. Otherwise if you pick a distro that you are unfamiliar with then you'll need to retrain yourself on it (or hope the default is just secure enough for you). Gary -Original Message- From: Michael Monnerie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 2:32 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Spamassassin Distro Such questions usually start flame wars. Simply use what you know. We use SUSE, because we know the glitches there, and they tend to work. Now, since opensuse.org started, they have bleeding edge versions of all packages, which is nice if you like to have the newest stuff.
Re: Spamassassin Distro
On Samstag, 12. November 2005 23:47 Gary W. Smith wrote: As mentioned you can go with bleeding edge (opensuse, fedora, etc) but do you want to run bleeding edge in production. Yes, you need to watch out before you use any new version. That's why we upgrade our internal servers before any customers machines, to see what new glitches, issues, bugs, config options are there. That's why servers usually run with 1-3 generations of an older SUSE than is the actual. Upgrades are only done if necessary, e.g. when there's no more update support from SUSE (usually for the latest 3-4 versions, which means about 2-3 years). mfg zmi -- // Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc --- it-management Michael Monnerie // http://zmi.at Tel: 0660/4156531 Linux 2.6.11 // PGP Key: lynx -source http://zmi.at/zmi2.asc | gpg --import // Fingerprint: EB93 ED8A 1DCD BB6C F952 F7F4 3911 B933 7054 5879 // Keyserver: www.keyserver.net Key-ID: 0x70545879 pgpLVNyKhPpWC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Spamassassin Distro
Hi, I am looking at setting up a new linux box dedicated to spamassassin via amavisd. I am wondering what the best distro is to do this on, is there a particular distro you guys can recommend? I am not looking for an out-of-the-box solution, but one that spam cleaning is almost native to! Regards,Tony