discuss: Linux Home Server - HOWTO Document Proposal
Subject:
Re: Linux Home Server - HOWTO Document Proposal
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
24 Nov 2004 06:30:37 -0000
Message-Id: <20041124062744.GA1072@lafn.org>
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 05:05:24PM +1000, Miles Brennan wrote:
> G'day All,
>
> I'm looking at writing a HOWTO over the summer break as a uni project.
>
> The initial concept that has been proposed to me is a Dedicated Linux
> Server for a complete home / SOHO LAN, using Dynamic IPs and DDNS. It
> should be applicable to most basic users that have simple ISP broadband
> accounts.
It's more that just a LAN isn't it? Will it not serve web pages to
anyone on the Internet?
>
> There are already 2 similar documents located at TLDP
> ("Home-Network-mini-HOWTO" and "Domain"), however they are a few years
> out of date, and don't cover the same content I'm proposing.
Could you contact the authors and ask if they plan on updating? If the
content is out-of-date they need updating.
>
> This document would primarily be based on FC3, but I'll keep the
> configuration files/guides generic as possible.
>
> Here are the basics:
>
> 1. Modem Configurations (USB and Ether)
Cable or DSL Modems (but that's too long)
> 2. Network Configs
> 3. IPTables Concepts
> 4. Yum / Up2date
What about apt-get for Debian?
> 5. Dynamic IP / DDNS
> - DDNS Internet Services
> - DDNS automation scripts
> 6. NTP
> - ntpd config
> - Client Config
> 7. DHCPD
> 8. Apache Web Server
> - Implement SSL Certs
> - URL Write Mod
> - Webmail
> - Virtual Hosts
> 9. Sendmail
or sendmail "clones" like exim?
> - Some hardening considerations
> - Mail Aliases
> - IMAP Mailboxes
> - Spamassasin / Clamav
> 10. BIND
> - Internal Config
> - External Cached
> 11. Squid Caching Proxy
> - Access Controls
> 12. SAMBA
> - User Accounts
> - Network Printing
> - Shared Directories
> 13. Shared Address Books (LDAP)
> 14. System Backup Scripts
>
>
> Please let me know your thoughts on the concept, as it isn't yet set in
> concrete, and I value your opinions. Somethings may be added / dropped.
Look good so you should go ahead with it, although I don't know the
subject very well.
For a simple alternative to DocBook markup see my mini howto:
Howtos-with-LinuxDoc. The LinuxDoc format is much easier to learn and
use but is technically inferior to DocBook. The url is
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Howtos-with-LinuxDoc.html
David Lawyer
