Linux Home Server HOWTO - Open For Review

[Miles Brennan]

Ow Mun Heng wrote:

>For DDNS, an alternative would be to use ddclient which is a perl script
>and it acts as a deamon and polls the interface for the IP and updates
>it.
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I did want to add some type of monitoring here, but I found the script 
the easiest and simplest way; people should be able to follow it.

>On the Firewall stuff
>My comment is, wouldn't it be simpler to note that all of those can be
>performed using a package such as shorewall? Teaching CLI for iptables
>great and stuffs, but it's more Low-level than high Level. (as you put
>it)
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Thats a fair call..  I called chapter 6 'concepts' for that reason, and 
Ive tried to keep the explanations as simple as possible. Security and 
simple are a hard match to start with, thats the reason I at least 
provided them with an example script to get them started. This is only 
the initial release, I think it would be suitable to include a package 
in future revisions.

>On your squid section, I believe that the FC3 startup scripts already
>does the database/cache directories if it's not been initialiased
>already so your squid -z would be moot.
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That is correct, similar to sendmail initscript and "make -C /etc/mail" 
etc... I put this in more as precautionary and it wont hurt them to run 
it, I also mentioned the sendmail one just to be safe.

>I guess that's it from me.
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Ow,

Thanks a lot for the feedback, I value it.

Regards,
Miles Brennan.