Thanks.
So do I DENY or DROP all incoming packets as the first rule THEN make the allow rules?

Nice

I am not able to tell you the ports that are open at the present moment. I can however tell you that port 5000 was open I think.

I have recently gone from using a Netgear WebSafe Router to using a Linux Proxy Server and Firewall to share the internet on my home network. I made the change because I found out that there was numerous ports open on the Router.

Now that I have successfully set up the Firewall and Proxy server, I have found out that there is still a few ports open that technically should not be because I didn't open them up.

There is a few rules on iptables that allow traffic on port 80 etc, but after that all traffic is denied on the external network. All traffic is allowed on the internal network.

Any help would be good.

That seems like a good way to do it. It beats trying to write a script. While on the topic of sendmail, how do you append text to all outgoing emails.

An example would be Hotmail - they add advertisements on the bottom of each email you send from their services. I was wondering is it possible to do this myself on Sendmail?

I use DansGuardian for my filtering. It is very good.
(www.dansguardian.org) and is pretty simple to configure using a downloadable webmin module.

Cheers,

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Hi,
I have heard of the majodomo mailing list server or whatever it is. I was wondering what does it do and how do I configure it to work.

My server is also running apache, sendmail, ts2 server, and webmin.


Thanks,

What did you do to make it work?

is the username root or a normal user.

If it is a normal user do the following:

1. Log on as root.
2. type 'passwd <username>'
3. Follow the prompts.

OR:

1. Start up by typing 'linux single' at the boot prompt
2. At the command prompt, type 'passwd <username>'
3. Follow the prompts
4. Reboot the computer normally.

Cheers,

Hi Again,
I fixed one problem. I had everything working for a while and then when I rebooted the server I could not recieve incoming mail. I suspect the error is the following:

Feb  2 13:05:01 fsd002 sendmail[3953]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(UID41): /etc/mail/submit.cf: line 421: readcf: option RunAsUser: unknown user smmsp: Permission denied
Feb  2 13:05:01 fsd002 sendmail[3953]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(UID41): /etc/mail/submit.cf: line 440: readcf: option TrustedUser: unknown user smmsp: Permission denied
Feb  2 13:05:01 fsd002 sendmail[3953]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(UID41): can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied

Thanks,

It is set to automatically start on boot. It might be a problem with permissions in the mail queue.

Thanks

Sendmail is running but as you said before the permissions are wrong or something. I will keep working on it though. I do the sendmail stuff as a weekend thing or during my spare time. Thanks a lot though.

A while back now I set my brother up with RedHat 9 as well because he was always complaining about windows freezing when he was doing his school work (so was I sometimes). I could use his computer as a reference on what the permissions and original configuration is. Then I will set it back to normal and try again.

If you find anything tell me though - I hate starting from scratch even though it's probably the quickist way to fix software problems.

I can't exactly do it atm because my new computer I would normally use for linux doesn't turn on and it is the only one that has usb / linux. I should have it going today / tomorrow (Tuesday/Wednesday). I will look then. My old pc has been converted to a RH9 server and is working like a dream compared to my old Windows server!

And how would I boot off it?

Hmm. I will have a look in my big linux book for Turbo Linux server - that's were I got the change root password thing from.

Are you able to log in as root even? You might of got the password or username wrong when you first made the user. I have done that a couple of times during installation because of my quick typing errors.

No Problems,

I purchased a usb flash stick a couple of months ago and I am wondering how to mount them as a drive on RedHat Linux 9. Previously I have only been able to mount the disk on windows or mac.

And just out of curosity is possible and how would I boot off the disk?

Any comments / ideas?

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