What happens if you bring up an interface using an init script on gentoo? Do you know? Already figured out how to start services depending on what interface is up/down? The gentoo-way is done in /etc/conf.d/net.
Tag: gentoo
Death of my KDE profile
As sysadmin I am talking about Backups every day, as things can break very easy. But are backups always usable, up to date and compatible? I was testing some software as suddenly my KDE crashed and the profile assistant launched. My settings were lost. What now? My backup is on a pc 25 km away from here – […]
Hardening
Linux is simple as long as you get the idea in behind. I am using it since some years for now and I need a new challenge. So I decided to have a look at the hardened projects and maybe using SELinux. But where to begin? Security starts at kernel level. So it might be a good start […]
Cleaning out on Gentoo
I think you already know the problem of fat systems. To prevent this, I did a cleaning session on my Gentoo installation here. This is not only about unmerging old and unused software. Think about your USE-Flags again. I give an example: LDAP support requires the OpenLDAP packages to be installed on the system. So if you never […]
Stargazers Overlay
As I am working and managing several gentoo boxes, my local portage overlay was the most annoying thing as it was never in sync. So my solution is setting up my own subversion repository containing my ebuilds to distribute them via layman on my boxes. To make use of the repository using layman, you need to add my […]
Kernel 2.6.22
There is great noise in the media since the new kernel has been released. The new features are told to be the killer. Well… amazing… but is the new kernel already useable? I had to face that question a few times today. The new wlan stack is causing headache to me as the old drivers for my ipw3945 […]