[ale] Linux starter

[Ken Nagorski]

Hi there,

	Well here is my advice and this is matter of prefrence I guess. I
uesd to work at and ISP and we always installed everything. All of 
it! That way you have it if you need it... Anyway there are some things
you need to be careful of. If you have space it does not matter if a
progrma in sitting there not running however you need to make sure there
is nothing that a malicous user could run on the system that would let
them gain root. You also need to make sure that there are no programs that
are open to the world such as nfs and things like. Really you should be
well aware of what is running on what ports anyway It just seems like with
those out of box setups like that you are always missing something. 

As for the question of installing qpopper. I am not sure what
error you got but I would try `rpm -Uvh qpopper-blah-blah.rpm` and report
back what it says to you. 

OK. Just trying to give some ideas...

Ken

 On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Bourque, Phillip C wrote:

> Hi Ken
> 
> I am trying to get this qpopper pop daemon up and running.
> 
> What is the difference in a server install or a workstation install when you
> setup Linux 7?
> 
> I setup a server install yesterday but then when I tried to install the rpm
> for qpopper it did not know what to do with the rpm file.
> 
> Did I not install something correctly?
> 
> If I want a server install with the xwindows and gui interface and be able
> to install rpm files what addition package should I install?
> 
> Thanks
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