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System configuration used in my installation testing as of May 2011

  • Arch: i686
  • Hardware: KVM w/virtio
  • Fedora release fully updated.
  • Network script instead of Networkmanager.
  • Network setup: DHCP / IPv4
  • Postfix and OpenSSH server installed and enabled at boot.
  • Sendmail removed

Automated script

#!/bin/sh
# Author: Athmane Madjoudj <athmanem AT gmail.com>

echo "BOOTPROTO=dhcp" >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
sed -i 's/ONBOOT=no/ONBOOT=yes/' /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
chkconfig network on
chkconfig NetworkManager off
service network restart
yum -y install openssh-server openssh-clients openssh postfix
chkconfig sshd on
chkconfig postfix on
yum -y remove sendmail
yum -y update
reboot