Hi Rod, I couldn't find any reference to ths minimal install on the web, but maybe I'm just being thick ;P If you could give me a link then I will be happy to try it out and report on my experiences.
I did this as an exercise since several of my customers have shown interest in me setting up VServers for them. I am currently expanding on that how-to in order to create a 'pick and mix' system for creating VServers for web hosting. The base install for the VServer therefore contains the very basic stuff needed to get a VServer up and running without having to use 'rpm --force --nodeps' ;) to build it, plus a few other bits and pieces that satisfy dependencies for other useful applications. I have already achieved this, but plan to optimise it over time. Next I took then main application requirements for a web hosting system (ie Sendmail/Procmail, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Postrgres and compiler subsystem etc and figured out which RPM's were required to get these up and running and what post install stuff needed to be done... I also worked out what the dependencies were for up2date to work properly, and currently have it running happily within the VServer environment. Next I am planning to improve on the up2date implementation so that it runs once on a reference VServer, and from which multiple VServers can be updated without having to have a RHN entitlement for each VServer. Finally I would like to tie it all together with some scripts to automate the build system for any RedHat version... I will keep expanding on my HOW-TOs, and plan to get all of this up on my site as time goes on... On the other side I am investigating various control panels (both commercial and free) with a view to having a fairly functional (RedHat-centric) web hosting system together in the next month or so. My programming skills are fairly non-existant but I am capable of knocking together the odd bash script here and there to automate stuff ;) I know not everyone uses VServer for web hosting purposes, but would be interested to hear what other peoples experiences have been in getting various control panels to work. So far I have managed to get Plesk and CPanel pretty much working, and plan to have a closer look at Linuxconf, even though it doesn't seem to be designed for web hosting (no reseller/end user modules as far as I can tell...). Is anyone else working on control panel functionality? Regards, Mark. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roderick A. Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 9:54 PM Subject: Re: [vserver] RedHat HOW-TOs > Very interesting. How does this minimal install compare to the > Linuxconf/newvserver minimal RDHL 7.3 install? > > > Rod > -- > "Open Source Software - Sometimes you get more than you paid for..." > >
