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I had an interesting experience yesterday. We wanted to get some take out chinese food from our local chinese restaurant, but didn’t have the phone number handy. So I went to our local telephone companies on-line yellow pages to find it (www.mytelus.com), but didn’t have quick success, so I decided to try Google Local. I first searched for “chinese restaurant victoria bc”. That found restaurants in the downtown area, so I then tried, “chinese restaurant saanich bc”. Bingo! I not only found all the local resteraunts, but had a labeled map of where they were. The experience was so much better than the on-line yellow pages it is not even funny.
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This is a great article… This is the original link to the article . Now here’s my copy of it:

The Perfect Setup - White Box Linux / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0

Version 1.0
Author: Falko Timme
Last edited 03/22/2004

This is a detailed description about the steps to be taken to setup a Linux server based on White Box Linux that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (web server (SSL-capable), mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS!), DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.).

Since White Box Linux is very similar to Red Hat Enterprise Linux this tutorial should also work for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. From the White Box Linux website:

“This product is derived from the Free/Open Source Software made available by Red Hat, Inc but IS NOT produced, maintained or supported by Red Hat. Specifically, this product is forked from the source code for Red Hat’s _Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3_ product under the terms and conditions of it’s EULA.

There may be remaining packaging problems and other odd bugs. These are solely the responsibility of the White Box Linux effort and should not in any shape, manner or form reflect on the quality of Red Hat’s commercial product. In fact, if you need a fully tested and supported OS you probably should go buy their box set. ”

The following services will be installed:

* Web Server: Apache 2.0.x
* Mail Server: Postfix (easier to configure than sendmail; has a shorter history of security holes than sendmail)
* DNS Server: BIND9
* FTP Server: vsftpd (you could also use vsftpd)
* POP3/IMAP: ipop3d/imapd
* Webalizer for web site statistics

In the end you should have a system that works reliably and is ready for the server control panel 42go ISP-Manager (this is optional; you can install any other control panel or no control panel at all).

I want to say first that this is not the only way of setting up such a system. There are many ways of achieving this goal but this is the way I take. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!
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