[CentOS] new CentOS 5 as DNS server

[Feizhou]

Ray Leventhal wrote:
> Feizhou wrote:
>>> As it will be a production server and this is my first foray into
>>> CentOS/SELinux in a production environment I was hoping to get a
>>> recommended list of what to include and, more specifically, what *not*
>>> to include from the distro CDs
>>>
>>> I will be doing a text based install, hoping to avoid the installation
>>> of X.  Other than BIND and vsftpd, I don't think I need much.  This
>>> machine will be pulling zone files from my primary web server and
>>> storing some archive files and backups for me.
>>>
>> Custom install and remove every package that you can except for bind,
>> openssh-server, vsftpd and whatever you use for archiving and backups
>> should do the trick.
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> Thank you Feizhou.  I'm hoping it's exactly that easy.

The installer will not let you remove packages that are in the 'Base' 
group. If you remove any package that bind, vsftpd or openssh-server 
needs, it will tell you later and ask you whether you want to ignore or 
install all dependencies and so you should safely get a working system.