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Hunter Jozwiak wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I am going to now host my web site on a Gentoo server. Firstly, is there |
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> a recommended profile for this, or will the default amd64 profile |
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> suffice? Or would it be better to use a hardened profile for this task? |
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> Secondly, does Linode offer the requisite information for things you |
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> MUST have while building a kernel? And finally, I am going to have |
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> multiple servers. Is there a package that I can use to distribute my |
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> built kernels? |
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> Thanks, you guys are awesome, and keep up the good work, |
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> |
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> Hunter |
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As far as you know how to hardened security of your servers. Normal |
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profile will be good (Though I still recommend hardened if you're |
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familiar with GRsecurity and other ``hardeded'' stuff). |
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If you go with the hardened version, you will also need to build custom |
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kernel and set kernel to pygrub in Linode profile settings (which |
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selects proper generic kernel by default). And yes you will need a |
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bootloader. |
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You can find out the kernel config options requirements at Linode website[1] |
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I don't know any method to build a binary kernel package. Maybe others |
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can help. I use to distribute it just by copying vmlinuz and initramfs |
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(I built them without any CPU-specific optimization or ``host-only'' mode). |
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[1]: |
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https://www.linode.com/docs/tools-reference/custom-kernels-distros/run-a-custom-compiled-kernel-with-pvgrub |
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