[Courses] please reply with what kind of courses are you interested in

[Vaida Bogdan]

Thank you for your responses. Here is my conclusion:

iptables - on site
perl - on site
networking - on site
security/hardening - on site
kernel programming - on site

on site = http://www.linuxchix.org/content/courses/

troubleshooting/tune up - too specific, I can't create a number of lessons
based on common errors as there already is an article on the topic
ids - there are many articles on snort presentation and deployment (or other
ids)
vim/emacs - same as above + the command vimtutor teaches you most of the
basics for vim, emacs has tutorials as well

shell programming - same as above, I could try a more specific approach
(filterring processes, changing similar content in multiple files, good logs
filtering tricks)
best practices security - interesting, I have some very good ideeas on the
topic
mail setup (mta + mda + imap/pop + anti spam + mua) - interesting but there
is a lot of information on google (try searching "postfix mysql" on google)
or even try "mail toaster"; for more advanced deployment
http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-sarge/

Any comments on the above?

On 9/28/05, Steven Walker <swalk at ya.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the response. I am not sure that this is now in the right
> section - maybe another course has just started :)
>
> >Since there are a lot of choices for making this chain:
> >
> >
> That is part of the problem, knowing where to start is difficult.
>
> > 1. Mail Transport Agent: Sendmail, Postfix, Exim or qmail
> >
> > 2. Mail Delivery Agent: procmail or any of the above
> >
> > 3. IMAP or POP server (remote access to mailboxes): uw-imap, courier,
> > dovecot...
> >
> > 4. Spam filtering: SpamAssassin or SpamBayes or a number of others
> >
> > 5. Mail User Agents: mutt, Evolution, KMail, slypheed and millions of
> > others
> >
> >and a lot of the choices are independent, people wanting this might want
> >to specify their needs a little better... ie, how do you want to use
> >your mail?
> >
> It is for home use so simple to use helps . I am fed up with having my
> various email accounts on various computers and never knowing exactly
> where to search for a particular message or address. My imaginary setup
> would be my server downloading my mail from various pop3 servers,
> filtering it for spam and filing it. Then, probably using Imap, I can
> access my mail from whichever computer I happen to be using.
>
> Being a wannabe geek I would probably want to do as much for myself as
> possible. Can I cut out my ISP's SMTP server and do it all myself? (and
> save a lot of anti-relaying problems when I am away from home and using
> the laptop). I would also like to try running my own POP3 server but
> probably would not trust it for serious use as there is too much that
> can go wrong.
>
> But I do not know enough about the subject to really specify my
> requirements so I am open to anything.
>
>
> Steve
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