On Tuesday 28 February 2006 11:47, Jean Blignaut wrote:
> no X like you said no games (besides maybe
> game servers)

I think here in lies the problem - everyone has different needs from thier 
servers. Personally, I need X on one of my servers, http://shurl.net needs it 
to create thumbnails of websites.  On some servers, the 'no games' would be a 
problem, because 'fortune' is needed (lets face it, it's a fantastic way to 
kill time).  

I will be solving this issue shortly by using the hardened profile, along with 
a custom overlay which will have a meta-package in called something like 
'$companyname-server'.  This will pull in iproute2, vim, fortune, nmap, 
iptables, and everything else.  This method could also be used to distribute 
custom config files - such as your vimrc, and your screenrc.

-- 
Ian P. Christian
http://pookey.co.uk

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