From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QOjsp-00050o-VI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 05:10:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EE9C21C3A0 for ; Tue, 24 May 2011 05:10:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fire-eyes.org (li176-145.members.linode.com [173.230.136.145]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3750B1C08F for ; Tue, 24 May 2011 04:34:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.10.10.10] by fire-eyes.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QOjKM-00085u-1j for gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 00:34:44 -0400 Message-ID: <4DDB3561.5070809@fire-eyes.org> Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 00:34:41 -0400 From: fire-eyes User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Thunderbird/3.1.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Gentoo as a stable web/mysql server References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "makulit.fire-eyes.org", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: I have been using Linode for at least a half year now. I use Gentoo on it. The only issues I have had is not being able to get a grsecurity kernel to boot on it for the life of me. Nobody seems to know why. I posted to the grsecurity list and magically most post never actually got sent out to everyone else. [...] Content analysis details: (-2.9 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: c7f5b4178412e8a5ddb482c40738ad91 I have been using Linode for at least a half year now. I use Gentoo on it. The only issues I have had is not being able to get a grsecurity kernel to boot on it for the life of me. Nobody seems to know why. I posted to the grsecurity list and magically most post never actually got sent out to everyone else. Other than that it has been an exceptional experience. I once joked to their support that their control panel not only did not support 128 char passwords, but that there was some sort of conflict between pretending to store it and actually storing it, meaning you had some password under 128 chars, and you couldn't log back in. I only expected them to fix my login issue and tell me how many chars to use, but they made it work with 128 chars. That's just how they are. If you go with a custom kernel (likely), be sure to bookmark this and read it later: http://library.linode.com/linode-platform/custom-instances/pv-grub-custom-compiled-kernel If you just can't get your kernel to boot, start with the config from their latest linode kernel and work from there. On 05/23/2011 06:55 PM, Mark Shields wrote: > I've been using Gentoo as a stable install on a VPS (Slicehost) for about 3 > months now. We're switching from Slicehost to Linode in a couple of weeks. > Currently using APC with PHP. Anyone have any experience with tweaking > Gentoo on a VPS server they'd like to share? > > (yeah this mailing list is dead so trying to spark some conversation) > > - Mark Shields >