[NMLUG] Debian server questions

[pi at pihost.us (Anthony Martinez)]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 07:29:49AM -0700, Aaron NMLUG-EV 
carved this out of pure phosphors:
> On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 17:17, Tim Emerick wrote:
> > I'm trying to set up a headless samba / sshd debian server and have a couple
> > of questions.
> 
> Thats my most common situation.
> 
> > 1. Can I manage the debian packages on this server using a remote synaptic?

Aptitude is a pretty nice synaptic-like command-line interface. In fact it's the
default in debian sarge now.

> 
> > 2. I don't like exim.  I really don't need any mail services on this machine
> > other than allowing different system accounts to be able to email me their
> > auto generated stuff like status/logs/error messages, etc.  These would/could
> > go through the SMTP server already on my lan.  Any suggestions?
> 

I happen to like postfix in one of it's modes. Try it out

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