From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.5 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_NONE,FAKE_REPLY_B, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from alpha.borowka.net (ALyon-110-1-6-160.abo.wanadoo.fr [80.11.104.160]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 9EE8AAC784 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 06:03:26 -0500 (CDT) Received: (qmail 9807 invoked by uid 81); 11 Dec 2001 09:48:20 -0000 Received: from 134.214.83.203 ( [134.214.83.203]) as user maciek@mail.borowka.net by www.borowka.net with HTTP; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 09:48:19 +0000 Message-ID: <1008064099.3c15d6638694c@www.borowka.net> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 09:48:19 +0000 From: Maciek Borowka To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a Production Server MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.0 X-Originating-IP: 134.214.83.203 Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 259b2e4f-ca1c-42b3-8fb1-0af6fbff95a4 X-Archives-Hash: 17a29e5a879cd462ef0e5ab14c57e9a6 Heh... Reply to... :+) ----- Forwarded message from Maciek Borowka ----- Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a Production Server To: Vano Dolukhanian Hello, This subject was already discussed several times on both gentoo-dev and gentoo-users. A lot of ideas were proposed and discussed. Just search the archives for "Stable gentoo", "gentoo server" and so on... As far as I remember (and this is what I would advice too) the most important thing using a gentoo server is to *never* emerge --update --world... This (very powerful, indeed) tool is simply not made for a server environement. Anyway, why would you want to update world? If you have a server without any security holes (ok, without any evident security holes ;+) you don't need to update... If you take a look, there is still a pretty good quantity of Redhat6.2 servers on the internet - they work and no one is really ready to upgrade them... Just my 0.02 euro... /Maciek Quoting Vano Dolukhanian : > Hi all, > > I am using Gentoo as a samba, mail and intranet web server at a site. > It is what usually is termed a "production server". Lately several > incidents have occured to me while upgrading (OpenSSH and a few other > stuff like Apache) using emerge -up system/world. > > [snip] > > All in all, I love Gentoo and am moving everything in my hands to this > distro, but I would love to regain my trust in emerge -up when dealing > with sensitive enviornments. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/