This post is basically intended to collect some information currently hard to find on Google. I wrote with the hope it might help someone else running into same or similar trouble as I did. It took several hours distributed over several days of investigation to finally fix a problem with my setup of Gentoo-based servers commonly authenticating against LDAP tree over PAM, Linux’ Pluggable Authentication Modules. Continue reading »
Apr 11
Virtualization of Gentoo using OpenVZ #2
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In my previous post I told you about some guides for installing vanilla Gentoo containers in a OpenVZ virtualization system. This time I’ll try to collect those things missing in template. Continue reading »
Apr 11
Hosters offer high-performance dedicated root servers for eligible monthly rates – at least some major Germany based hosters do so. Quad-core Intel i7 systems with 8 GB RAM for 50 EUR per month serve as a perfect start into server virtualization. And so it’s time to start your own virtual server farm. Continue reading »
Jul 13
Today I’m providing information on my efforts to get a running installation of Zimbra Collaborative Suite using its Open Source Edition. It’s being installed onto a server running an up-to-date 2008.0 installation of Gentoo Linux. It’s a vServer and I tried to install from source first. But then I found a very useful tutorial putting a binary distribution of Zimbra CS into a Debian-like context running in chroot.
Jun 23
So the excerpt is already indicating it: it’s possible to have a Gentoo distribution running on a Strato VServer. I was cycling through trying to install Gentoo, failing due to server not coming up properly after rebooting (not providing any logfile or similar), considering switch to Debian on this single server for the sake of simplicity, then falling back to praising benefits of a homogeneous set of servers sharing one Linux distro for several days now. After tweaking some things I finally got a server responding to pings, responding to SSH login requests.
