My server is a LinuxFromScratch 4.0 system and as with all 'FromScratch' systems it is completely source based.
How do you deal with the clutter of libraries, includes, man pages, logfiles, config files, etc that each new application needs to install?
Good question: When compiling running the Configure script ( or by Editing the Makefile if there is no Configure script ) I select a --prefix=/opt/[packagename-version] Now all files that this application installs is under this directory branch. Update/etc/ld.so.conf to indicate the new lib folder/opt/[packagename]/lib and run ldconfig. I then use symbolic links to setup init scripts and to link the man pages to the man directories. Want to move to a new version? Install new version to another/opt/ directory.
Side benefit! You can have multiple copies of the same applications installed and running independantly of each other! I have samba 2.8.1 and 3.x as well as Apache 1.3.x and 2.x running at the same time! You can test the new version without interferring with the older version. ( With network applications as those listed you will need to create virtual adapters ie. eth0:1 and explicitely bind them to that application in their config. Samab is interfaces=eth0:1 or interfaces=10.10.10.1 )
I've got a 2.2.19 GNU/Linux Linuxfromscratch.org setup. It is behind my firewall so I'm not that worried about security. It runs my internal Bind 9 DNS, ISC DHCPD, Samba 2.2.7a, and software RAID which was a pain to setup!
When I go away from my Compaq rackmount 25GB (pitiful I know) RAID chasis full of old 4.3GB disks and go to large IDE drives, then I might rebuild to 2.4.
Incidentally the firewall runs 2.4.20, SQUID transparent chaching, and SSH - that's all folks.
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Oops forgot to post URL to weasle....
http://www.realweasel.com/products.html
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Another poster pointed me in this direction....
1. Get a weasle card for each server you have. 2. Get a Clysdale terminal server, or plug the serial into a Linux box and ssh to that system and use minicom....
This may or may not work for windows. Windows won't let you use the weasle as primary video, but if you can add an AGP card to the system for windows and the weasle card for BIOS.... Make sure winblows gets the primary display setup for the AGP card....
This is pure conjecture and you are responsible for any purchases and headaches caused by the preceeding!
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My server is a LinuxFromScratch 4.0 system and as with all 'FromScratch' systems it is completely source based.
/opt/[packagename-version] Now all files that this application installs is under this directory branch. Update /etc/ld.so.conf to indicate the new lib folder /opt/[packagename]/lib and run ldconfig. I then use symbolic links to setup init scripts and to link the man pages to the man directories. Want to move to a new version? Install new version to another /opt/ directory.
How do you deal with the clutter of libraries, includes, man pages, logfiles, config files, etc that each new application needs to install?
Good question: When compiling running the Configure script ( or by Editing the Makefile if there is no Configure script ) I select a --prefix=
Side benefit! You can have multiple copies of the same applications installed and running independantly of each other! I have samba 2.8.1 and 3.x as well as Apache 1.3.x and 2.x running at the same time! You can test the new version without interferring with the older version. ( With network applications as those listed you will need to create virtual adapters ie. eth0:1 and explicitely bind them to that application in their config. Samab is interfaces=eth0:1 or interfaces=10.10.10.1 )
I've got a 2.2.19 GNU/Linux Linuxfromscratch.org setup. It is behind my firewall so I'm not that worried about security. It runs my internal Bind 9 DNS, ISC DHCPD, Samba 2.2.7a, and software RAID which was a pain to setup!
When I go away from my Compaq rackmount 25GB (pitiful I know) RAID chasis full of old 4.3GB disks and go to large IDE drives, then I might rebuild to 2.4.
Incidentally the firewall runs 2.4.20, SQUID transparent chaching, and SSH - that's all folks.
Oops forgot to post URL to weasle....
http://www.realweasel.com/products.html
Another poster pointed me in this direction....
1. Get a weasle card for each server you have.
2. Get a Clysdale terminal server, or plug the serial into a Linux box and ssh to that system and use minicom....
This may or may not work for windows. Windows won't let you use the weasle as primary video, but if you can add an AGP card to the system for windows and the weasle card for BIOS.... Make sure winblows gets the primary display setup for the AGP card....
This is pure conjecture and you are responsible for any purchases and headaches caused by the preceeding!