Re: [gentoo-server] Best practices in managing large server groups

["Justin Cataldo" <jc@justincataldo.com>]

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>Back to the original question.  How do I run a number of gentoo boxes
>without gcc (or a portage tree)?

This all sounds way over my head, but anyway... could distcc be the answer?

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml

JC

On 5/22/07, Ronan Mullally <ronan@iol.ie> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 21 May 2007, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote:
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> > But, of course, if they got access to the box, then the compiler is the
> > least of your problems at that time, but I have to admit that the
> > "slowing the attacker down" is an extra layer of protection. It provides
> > the sysadmins/users/monitoring software more time to detect the breach.
>
> Removing development tools is one of just a range of security measures.
> It is by no means the be-all and end-all of security - hence my mention of
> security in depth.  There are easily a couple of dozen security measures I
> implement when installing a box.  Removing development tools (or in most
> cases, never installing them) is just one of them, but we diverge...
>
> Back to the original question.  How do I run a number of gentoo boxes
> without gcc (or a portage tree)?
>
>
> -Ronan
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