Recently I’ve rented a server partition from a German provider which turned out to be a linux-vserver partition. About five or six years ago I have experimented with linux-vserver myself, still have headaches when it comes to its security implications…
Unfortunately the provider has not offered any Gentoo images. Despite that and by the means of the rescue shell, I have installed Gentoo on it. Here is how: Read more »
Unlike Apache httpd server Nginx has no ebuilds which let you select which modules you want to have installed with it. Yet.
On last Saturday I have written an eclass to simplify maintaining Nginx ebuilds and added a new Portage variable NGINX_MODULES to USE_EXPAND. In other words, from that on you can select Nginx modules like for Apache. As an example, Read more »
Since around versions 5.1.40 and 5.4.3 CMake structure has changed in MySQL and the former instructions on how to build it with SphinxSE (aka Sphinx storage engine) are outdated. Compiling has become easier and requires fewer steps, for which I will provide a tutorial below. Read more »
This is how I installed Gentoo on the SheevaPlug: Read more »
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