Re: [vserver] Mix and match guest distributions

From: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson <daniel_at_hozac.com>
Date: Fri 15 Apr 2011 - 14:31:14 BST
Message-ID: <37245.192.168.102.6.1302874274.squirrel@192.168.100.17>

Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> Michael S. Zick wrote:
>> On Thu April 14 2011, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
>>> Adrian Reyer wrote:
>
> <snip />
>>
>> A kernel + a minimal build of busybox should fill that bill.
>> A common add-on to "minimal" is an application providing sshd (often DropBear).
>>
>> Unless your definition of "minimal host" includes KDE or other GUI. ;-)
>
> No way! I'm trying to reduce a CentOS 5 install and having a heck of a
> time with the dependences. GConf seems to require X stuff and on and on.

Why do you need GConf? yum remove is your friend, you can get rid of a
lot of crap by yum remove libX11...

> The other stuff I like and kind of need is Perl so I can run Fcheck and
> a few other custom monitoring/reporting scripts.
>
> I'll look at Busybox.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Rod

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Daniel Hokka Zakrisson
Received on Fri Apr 15 14:31:27 2011
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