Problems on the new host...

Just for historical purposes, here's where I've been with my new VPS at InfoQuestHosting.com:

1) The original VPS I got ran fedora core 2 Linux, which is apparently pretty ancient. Hard to get RPMs for updates, etc.

2) After some waiting, they now have a new fedora core 5 Linux VPS solution, which I have been upgraded to.

3) The VPS's linux installation is for some reason missing YUM, which is a handy utility for updating this. After a bunch of looking, I found a way to get an rpm for it from the Redhat.com/Fedora website. As su, you need to do this to install it:

cd /tmp
rpm -Uvh http://

Now you can run yum. :)

4) My current predicament is to get sendmail to support port 587 for SMTP, because my home office's ISP blocks port 25. So far, I've updated the sendmail.cf file per comments in that file, and opened up port 587 on my firewall (after installing virtuozzo to do this for the VPN). No luck, yet, though.

UPDATE: sendmail is running through xinetd, so that has to be enabled to listen to 587. So, that means creating a file: /etc/xinetd.d/sendmail_587 with this content (not submission = 587 from /etc/services)

service submission
{
disable = no
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = root
group = root
server = /usr/sbin/sendmail
server_args = -bs -Am
nice = 5
instances = 10
}