Nate Carlson wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Steve Linabery wrote: > >>on it, I plan to run >>apache httpd >>apache tomcat (with whatever latest j2sdk) >>amanda >>qmail (outbound mail from website) >>ssh >>X >> >>I'm looking for the distro that will be easily secured, has reasonable >>security defaults out of the box, and is compatible with the above setup >>(I'm talking about avoiding weird configuration problems, build >>problems, ACL configuration with these kinds of services, etc.). > > > Any reason you want to use qmail instead of a lightweight mailer like > nullmailer? Also, why X on a web server? > > In any case, Debian should be able to do all of the above without a > problem, and has fairly reasonably defaults. > well, qmail because I'm used to it and because it's not sendmail. X because I'm lazy and want to use gui configuration tools sometimes when my other machine is off...is X just plain a bad idea, or can it be sufficiently "battened down?" any links to docs for doing same? thanks so far everyone. s -- Steve Linabery _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list