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Well, interestingly enough, the portage system already provides the |
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mechanism for reminding you that there are such and such configuration |
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file to be set up or tweaked. That is what these messages that scroll by |
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too fast say (when a package just finished being emerged). What is |
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presently missing is a sort of "collector" for these messages so that |
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you can revise these important notes afterwards. |
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As for the package selection themselves (because that might be what Nick |
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is referring to, there might be a way to make base profiles mission |
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specific servers (ie: a web server profile, an SQL server profile, a |
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firewall profile, a file server profile, a mail server profile....). |
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These profiles would include the base apps and configuration support |
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apps (ie, samba server, include swat to ease the configuration). And, of |
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course, these profiles could be additive... |
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The neat thing about these profiles is that it makes it clear that the |
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system is to be used for such or/and such purpose. It makes it then |
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possible to make a "little" script that asks general questions |
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applicable to the entire system. Configuration stuff also present in a |
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"bazillion" configuration files, such as domain name, which has to be |
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inserted in the postfix/hostname/apache/ssh/dyndns...etc config files. |
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I know it sounds like a dream but I want to see Gentoo become the basis |
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for simple solution servers where, at the installation, you are asked |
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for the basic configuration information and then it simply installs and |
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configures itself for such. |
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Eric //KyRoN// |
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PS: I know....I'm a dreamer....but this is the type of dreams Gentoo |
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makes possible without too much effort. |
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PSS: and YES this sounds like an install script :P |
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On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 06:34, Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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> On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:20:16AM +0200 or thereabouts, Nick Van Vlaenderen wrote: |
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> > I guess this mail was mentioned for the gentoo-user list? But anywayz... |
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> No, it was intended for the gentoo-server list. |
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> > I have made up a list of all stuff to do when I set up a server, that's |
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> > enough for me... What do you mean with "the little details", as if you |
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> > know you need to set up xinetd and all the stuff on a list, not that |
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> > difficult... |
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> The point was, when it comes to setting up a new server, there are 9 |
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> bazillion things that need to be done and remembering each and every last |
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> one is a challenge. |
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> --kurt |
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Kyron <kyron@×××××.com> |
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