Linux Administration & Maintenance

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Gentoo

On-Campus, we can speed installation/updates by using a local source; in your /etc/make.conf:
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.iat.sfu.ca/gentoo/"
An alternative is to use an NFS mount, but if NFS breaks or is unavailable... :-(


  • TODO: Find other documents about how to maintain a Gentoo machine, primarily for Gordon and Mark.
  • TODO: Custom gentoo configuration stuff that we use

SUSE

  • TODO: Instructions for install with LDAP working
  • TODO: Instructions for auto-update configuration

RedHat/Fedora

  • TODO: Instructions for install with LDAP working

FreeBSD

  • TODO: Instructions on configuring the firewall on Dreadnought