10.10 Network service configuration

Typical network service configuration on the desktop or home server environment involves:

• The Internet super-server and TCP/IP daemon wrapper, see Restricting access to services, Section 9.2.5.

  • /etc/inetd.conf

• ssh: OpenSSH secure shell, see SSH, Section 9.5.

  • /etc/ssh/ssh_config

  • /etc/ssh/sshd_config

• exim: mail transport agent, see Mailname, Section 10.3.2 and Mail transport agents (MTAs), Section 9.6.1.

  • /etc/exim/exim.conf

  • /etc/mailname

  • /etc/aliases

  • /etc/email-addresses

• fetchmail: daemon to fetch mail from a POP3 account, see Fetching mail – Fetchmail, Section 9.6.2.

  • /etc/fetchmailrc

• procmail: local mail delivery and filter program, see Processing mail – Procmail, Section 9.6.3.

  • ~/.procmailrc

• Hostname and DNS (proxy, cache, ...), see Hostname, Section 10.3.1 and Domain Name Service (DNS), Section 10.4.

  • /etc/host.conf

  • /etc/hostname

  • /etc/hosts

  • /etc/hosts.allow

  • /etc/hosts.deny

  • /etc/resolv.conf

  • /etc/bind/named.conf (edit)

  • /etc/bind/db.lan (add for LAN hosts)

  • /etc/bind/db.192.168.0 (add for LAN reverse)

• DHCP, see Configuring network interfaces using DHCP, Section 10.5.

  • /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf (DHCP client side)

  • /etc/default/dhcp3-server (DHCP server side)

  • /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf (DHCP server side)

• cvs: concurrent versions system, see Concurrent Versions System (CVS), Section 12.1.

  • /etc/cvs-cron.conf

  • /etc/cvs-pserver.conf

• nfs-kernel-server: network file system, see NFS configuration, Section 3.4. (for unix-like systems)

  • /etc/exports

• samba: network file and printer share for Windows, see Samba configuration, Section 3.5 and Samba, Section 8.6.38.

  • /etc/samba/smb.conf

• Printer daemon system, see Printer configuration, Section 3.6.

  • /etc/printcap (for lpr)

• apache and apache2: web server.

  • /etc/apache/*

  • /etc/apache2/*

• squid: web proxy cache server.

  • /etc/squid/*