[SlugLUG] Debian As A Server

[Rohan Sheth]

This here appear thing sounds interesting.  I'll have to toy with it. 
Watching shit scroll on my screen for a few hours while Gentoo plays
update is somewhat boring...

Night emerge -uD world sounds good...but does it log the updates
somewhere?  I would probably want to know if something important was
updated (new kernel, new apache, new php, etc.)

--Rohan

cerise at armory.com wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 10:16:15AM -0700, Rohan Sheth wrote:
> [ snip ]
>   
>> Gentoo is another distro I have run on machines for a while...and
>> it has interesting aspects.  The whole build-from-source thing has the
>> "cool" factor...but functionality increases are fairly low and I find it
>> more to be a hassle to compile things like X.org considering they take a
>> decent amount of time.  
>>     
>
>    You, my friend, need appear.  It even seems to be in a mostly working
> state at the moment.
>    http://l.armory.com/~cerise/appear-latest.tbz2
>    It changes the build process from a foreground application to a background
> service.  So when you type emerge, it verifies that the command is valid,
> submits it to a daemon service if it's backgroundable, and cranks away without
> your attention.
>    It makes nightly emerge -u -D world's great.  I haven't seen boogeyman
> compile in years, but I know it does by the logs the next morning.
>
>   
>> The Hardened factor of Gentoo is again
>> interesting, they are gone to great lengths to include security features
>> and they have documented them quite nicely.
>>     
>
>    They're also one of the foremost in SELinux integration.  Actually, if you
> REALLY want to run something different, SELinux is the way to go.  What's
> cooler than having a root account that can't do anything?
>
> -Phil/CERisE
>
>
>   


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