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From: Roderick A. Anderson (raanders_at_acm.org)
Date: Thu 10 Oct 2002 - 12:55:28 BST


On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Cathy Sarisky wrote:

> I'm spawning ~200MB vservers, POST unification. Of course, that
> includes (ununified) source code and compiled executables for
> PostgreSQL and AOLserver, in addition to all the usual stuff you might
> want on a server.

[snip]

> RPMs that can DEFINITELY go:
>
> iptables/chains/etc
> anything firewall related (requires iptables/chains/etc)
> kudzu <-- evil. May hang during vserver start if the vserver user turns it on with chkconfig.
> Anything related to the sound card (duh.)
> Anything related to burning CDs (duh. But I got both on my last dedicated server installed by the server provided, so watch for it.)
> almost anything involving networking or the kernel.

This is great, but ...

> I prefer to trim down than build up, since there's always something I
> want that I'll miss if I try to build up.

you know what would be greater? Yup, your idea (rpm list) of a trimmed
down vserver install. :-)

It is so much easier to throw rocks than to build. Mind you, I wouldn't
throw rocks.

Rod

-- 
  "Open Source Software - Sometimes you get more than you paid for..."


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