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Old 02-23-2007, 03:40 PM   #1
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Ha well I am a nub (nother useless body) learning the linux way. Working on creating a mailserver with ISP CP, Radius auth and want to use Mysql backend for all. Any and all suggestions and pointers welcome.
 
Old 02-23-2007, 04:22 PM   #2
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There are a few packages out there designed to be used ISP.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ispconfig/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/42goisp/

There are others. Found these searching google. There is another one but it eludes me at the moment. Also check out webmin. http://www.webmin.com. It has some thrid party plugins to interface with things like ISP control. Also allows quota control in a gui type web interface. Webmin can do a lot for configuring many of the services.

Also when partitioning the machine I recommend creating one just for /home and one for say /var/spool/mail. Then you can use quota control on users that are added depending software you use. Limit standard users to have say 20meg of drive space for webpages which will be in their home directory. As for mail limit there usage as well.

I have done an ISP type setup on linux but years ago. Basically before gui. Mostly in the command line using scripts. Used simply radius but forget which one I used then. I think it was something like radius from livingston or similiar. Very simply. Give certain user a static IP if needed. Control their usage and times allowed on. Mostly parental control there.

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Old 02-23-2007, 06:27 PM   #3
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Old 02-24-2007, 02:17 AM   #4
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THANKS!! great suggestions@! We are gonna do a Virtual via postfix and Mysql backend. The big piece is the CP and I was thinking VHCS2. And have looked at the versatility of ISP (so so). I will give a peek at the other two you suggested. The radius integration is the big piece as we want to have the DB hold the auth tabel and link to users tables The Drives are raided and we got 1g boot 3g swap and 156g root, thought it would be best to put all in one instead of parting out like that. Is there any reason that doing the way you suggested makes the system run better? Its a Dell blade we are building this on.
 
Old 02-24-2007, 01:29 PM   #5
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It does not really improve unless the partitions end up on different drives. But since raided there is no benefit is speed. Only benefit is using quota control. You can quota control it even if it is not seperate partitions. I just don't remember the post I seen that in.

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