Hunter Jozwiak wrote:
Hello,
I am going to now host my web site on a Gentoo server. Firstly, is there
a recommended profile for this, or will the default amd64 profile
suffice? Or would it be better to use a hardened profile for this task?
Secondly, does Linode offer the requisite information for things you
MUST have while building a kernel? And finally, I am going to have
multiple servers. Is there a package that I can use to distribute my
built kernels?
Thanks, you guys are awesome, and keep up the good work,
Hunter
As far as you know how to hardened security of your servers. Normal
profile will be good (Though I still recommend hardened if you're
familiar with GRsecurity and other ``hardeded'' stuff).
If you go with the hardened version, you will also need to build custom
kernel and set kernel to pygrub in Linode profile settings (which
selects proper generic kernel by default). And yes you will need a
bootloader.
You can find out the kernel config options requirements at Linode website[1]
I don't know any method to build a binary kernel package. Maybe others
can help. I use to distribute it just by copying vmlinuz and initramfs
(I built them without any CPU-specific optimization or ``host-only'' mode).
[1]:
https://www.linode.com/docs/tools-reference/custom-kernels-distros/run-a-custom-compiled-kernel-with-pvgrub
