CentOS 64bit

[fossie]

Hello,

I was looking for CentOS 64bit support and found that:
RedHat Enterprise / CentOS 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 5.0 (64-bit: 4.1 - 4.5, 5.0)
only 5.0 is supported, but it seems that I can't download this distro.

Someone has an idea that 5.1 is already supported?

TIA,
Fossie

 

[nobaloney]

CentOS 5.x should work.

Jeff

 

[smtalk]

Yes, 5.1 is supported.

 

[fossie]

I'm currently installing DA on CentOS 5.1 64 bit, but it seems that MySQL 4.1 can't be installed: missing file:
http://files.directadmin.com/services/all/mysql/64-bit/
MySQL-server-xxxxxxx.glibc23.x86_64.rpm (4.1 version), running now install 5.0 (custombuild)

Someone encoutered same problem?

Fossie

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

There is no mysql 4 for 64-bit setup with custombuild.
You can use mysql 4.1 for 64-bit if you want, you'll just have to download the files from dev.mysql.com.

John

 

[fossie]

Confirm CentOS 5.1 Install

I installed with success:
CentOS 5.1 (1st CD), installed with every package list unchecked (I think this is a minimal install this way), also manually unchecked other packages, like editors, dialup networking, ...

Here some steps, hopefully I didn't missed one

yum update
yum install gcc
yum install gcc-c++

DA install

wget http://www.directadmin.com/setup.sh
chmod 755 setup.sh
./setup.sh

my options.conf: php5 (cli), apache 1.3, mysql 5.0 (4.1 didn't work with custombuild), install/upgrade (all yes), dovecot (no).

cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
./build all

I've got an error and had to install:

yum install libtool-ltdl-devel
yum install libtool-ltdl-1.5.2
ldconfig
updatedb

And ran custombuild again:

cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
./build clean
./build all

I had some issue with standard installed iptables rules, had to add ports to accept.


What extra security do I have to install on CentOS, I'm not that familar with Centos, used to have debian system, but debian isn't supporting 64 bit install with DA.

TIA,
Fossie

 

[fossie]

Dovecot

I saw in this thread:
http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25547&highlight=migrate
that migrating from a box with mbox format to a new box with dovecot, the mbox is automatically converted.
So, I'll build dovecot, before I do the transfer of the accounts.

If someone has any bad experiences with this, please let me know.

TIA,
Fossie

 

[Webcart]

What extra security do I have to install on CentOS, I'm not that familar with Centos, used to have debian system, but debian isn't supporting 64 bit install with DA.

Here is a list of DA related security enhancements you might want to do after DA install:

1. DNS reconfiguration: make non-recursive nameserver and restrict zone transfers
2. Hiding Apache/PHP info
3. Enabling server status for trusted network
4. Installing mod_security

Of course, you should also do a standard system hardening and install monitoring and auditing packages, but that's not CentOS specific.