Mark: Thanks for your help. I want you to know that I got httpd to start successfully. As per your recommendation, I shut off xinetd and some other services that were trying to listen on 0.0.0.0 and basically crowding out Apache. I just shut off daemons one by one that weren't on your "keep" list. I think what finally solved the problem was killing something called "tux", which makes sense since it is described as some kind of httpd-related daemon.
As to sendmail, am I to understand that to run it "locally," I'd turn the daemon back on, but close the SMTP port on the iptables firewall? Assuming your answer to that is "yes," do I also safely assume that it's the same way with other services that are to be run "locally?" I think that's what you said but I want to be absolutely sure, before I risk opening any holes in my security perimeter that could be exploited. Second, I'm interested in adding a mail server that actually can communicate with the outside world. I've been hearing that sendmail config is hard and that I should use PostFix instead. Your opinion please. Thanks, Matt "Our nation has defended itself and served the freedom of all mankind. I'm proud to lead such an amazing country and I'm proud to lead it forward." - President George W Bush, November 3 2004 God give wisdom to our leaders. God bless America. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
