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Hi all, |
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I am using Gentoo as a samba, mail and intranet web server at a site. |
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It is what usually is termed a "production server". Lately several |
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incidents have occured to me while upgrading (OpenSSH and a few other |
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stuff like Apache) using emerge -up system/world. |
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I always take a lot of care while upgrading to make sure no backward |
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compatibility issues arise because of the new software. But after being |
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locked out of ssh after updating OpenSSH (because the latest version |
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requires a /var/empty dir which the ebuild does NOT create and the |
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service will NOT restart) and after seeing named (bind) fail to start |
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after a restart of service (to check whether everything is ok) and |
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finding that it seems it is missing some files (remerging it fixed it, |
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but after a few hours where users were not being able to use the net nor |
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emails), I have come to distrust emerge -up completely regarding a |
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server environment. Most of these issues (there are more smaller ones) |
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have occured to me in the past week. |
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I am using Gentoo at home on several computers and this was my first |
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attempt at using it at a site and unfortunately I am doubting if I have |
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done a good decision. |
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I am sending this email to ask fellow admins what guidelines (if any) |
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do they adopt when using Gentoo on such an environment and to find out |
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what other people's suggestions are. Also are there any plans to make |
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Gentoo more solid and stable in a server enviornment? Having a |
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server/secure/stable profile for example? |
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All in all, I love Gentoo and am moving everything in my hands to this |
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distro, but I would love to regain my trust in emerge -up when dealing |
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with sensitive enviornments. |
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Regards, |
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Vano D. |