On 01.12.2007 09:03, Alan wrote:
This used to be a debian system and was moved over to gentoo about 4
years ago when I had been spending lots of time with gentoo on my
desktop at home. I like gentoo, however I would exercise caution if
you're deploying on real systems.
We have also moved
Alan wrote:
rollback plan. Apache, php, modules, mod_perl, etc. No biggie at all
if it's your home server, but that's potentially a lot of downtime (ie:
a couple of hours) as I compile, test, re-jig the config files, test
more, etc. I'm in the same boat with postfix, running a 2.0.x when
I wasn't going to chime in until some real deployments have been
mentioned.
Ditto.
I run a home network that's pretty much gentoo-only. The server
provides DNS, DHCP, LAMP, Posfix SMTP, IMAPS (courier), TFTP (bsd),
SAMBA, NFS.
I am currently pursuing a career in IT and expect to
First of all, thanks to everybody for sharing your experiences, very
helpful information indeed, specially now that i need some guidance.
For now, the conclusion i can reach is that Gentoo is perfectly adequate
to use on a server with the only downside of the need to have special care
with
Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
First of all, thanks to everybody for sharing your experiences, very
helpful information indeed, specially now that i need some guidance.
For now, the conclusion i can reach is that Gentoo is perfectly
adequate to use on a server with the only downside of the
It mainly depends on your own feelings. I think that a debian stable
is a very good choice for a prod' server, but I really dislike the way
Debian manages daemon and prefer the Gentoo approach. Updates are not
painless...for sure, but you have to consider your needs first (what
tools do you need ?
Quoting Wayn0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Mirror the setup in a virtual machine ;-)
linux virtualization
some links:
http://virt.kernelnewbies.org/
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/01/26/xen.html
linux-vserver looks pretty neat, too
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux-VServer
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After having used RHEL/CentOS and Debian in the past (for a binary system, I
really like Debian), I'm at the point where I get frustrated working on a
non-gentoo server. I had used Gentoo in the past, but in the last 6 months
my place of employment has been deploying more and more gentoo servers.
Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
The issue is, as you should already must have guessed, if its a
good idea to deploy Gentoo in a server. For the first time, i have the
opportunity to install Gentoo on a properly set (almost pimped out)
server and i wanted to be sure i know what i am doing before
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:53:57 -0500, Derek Bodner wrote:
Some sysadmins worry about having a compiler installed on a production
system, and there are valid reasons to be concerned, but most of those
can be averted with a little extra care. In the end, I think the worry
about a compiler is
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:01:19 -0300
Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The issue is, as you should already must have guessed, if its a
good idea to deploy Gentoo in a server. For the first time, i have
the opportunity to install Gentoo on a properly set (almost pimped
out) server
The issue is, as you should already must have guessed, if its a good idea
to deploy Gentoo in a server. For the first time, i have the opportunity to
install Gentoo on a properly set (almost pimped out) server and i wanted to
be sure i know what i am doing before getting on with it. Where i
I run Gentoo on a server, but it's just a hobby, low-end one. Athlon XP
processor, 1.5 gigs of ram, raid 1 (hardware-controlled). I have a few
daemons/servers on it, such as Apache, snmp, and an MTA. Runs fine.
You might try talking to some of the web hosts who run dedicated Gentoo
servers.
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I run Gentoo on 5+ servers (the rest are Ubuntu Linux servers and OpenBSD). I
have to admit that the
upgrading procedure and certain Java/libs issues are making it a little painful
to maintain, but on
the other side, I LOVE webapp-config. It makes
I have been using Gentoo for my server for several years. Just a hobby but
I run the following services...
Apache, MySQL, Qmail, VSFTPD, SAMBA, BIND, Squid and Courier Imap.
Use Webmin for configuration and setting it up is easy as pie.
The issue is, as you should already must have guessed,
Our main server, which hosts the Latin America Official Gentoo Mirror runs
Gentoo. So does our Web-server. So does our Backup server. So does our
datacenter. By our I mean the laboratory I work at (check signature). I
see no major issue on running Gentoo on servers.
On 11/28/07, Jason Carson
I can't claim to have done anything as fancy as Ricardo, but in my
previous place of work I used Gentoo on three different servers to:
Apache, PHP, Perl, MySQL, Squid, SVN, and other bits and pieces...
Generally things ran smoothly... but upgrades did take some time...
and I only trusted a small
Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
The issue is, as you should already must have guessed, if its a
good idea to deploy Gentoo in a server. For the first time, i have the
opportunity to install Gentoo on a properly set (almost pimped out)
server and i wanted to be sure i know what i am doing before
Robert Spahr wrote:
I have been running these gentoo servers since 2003, with very few
problems. Although I am conservative in doing my updates.
I've run gentoo on several servers from dual intels running dns, squid,
routing, to web servers, to quad opterons running as terminal servers.
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