On Friday August 31 2007 03:50:52 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As a testimonial to all involved, my SVN-20070820 build is online > serving my pages with no issues to date. The book is righteous. > > I have two queries. > > RE: HLFS test suite; During the build, tests are very important. After a > build is finished and booting, testing is even more important. A > comprehensive test suite is needed to validate the final product.
The paxtest tests in the paxctl package has many tests, but some of them depend on you running a grsecurity kernel. > RE: grsec; I am curious as to why the void regarding gradm2? > This seems like an important component for security configuration. > Is there a problem I have not yet discovered? It's not added yet because nothing depends on it. I would like to add gradm rules for each package, so there are a lot of examples. > RE: logging; Good log management is a basic with any server type system. > A unmanaged 1G+ kern.log or sys.log is unacceptable to any sysadmin. > Logrotate needs to be brought into this build as an integral component. > This is not even in the BLFS tree... It should be IMHO. There was a bit of discussion a long time ago about adding a cron daemon. We could use it right away for rotating logs, and maybe a couple other things like tripwire. > Marty B. robert
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