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By coryking (Tue Aug 29, 2006 at 10:07:25 PM EST) (all tags)

Ingredients:

one Hax0red SuSE box
one copy of PuTTy
two (2) open SSH sessions
fresh gentoo binaries

Start by logging into your hax0red box
Using the binaries, liberally apply tar, bzip2, emerge and gcc
In a seperate bowl, compile the source of one linux kernel, being sure to leave no modules in the bowl.
Combine your kernel and binaries
Use your text editor to slightly combine your servers IP, default gateway, and dns servers
Cross fingers, start pinging your server, pray and reboot.

If your pings start working again, enjoy your new Gentoo (tm) brand operating system!

If your pings do not work, please RTFM

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Cooler than an iced tea | 9 comments (9 topical, 0 hidden) | Trackback

Iluvs me Gentoo. by dev trash (4.00 / 1) #1 Tue Aug 29, 2006 at 10:10:40 PM EST

but VPSes aren't really that powerful for them. SO Ubuntu it is. AFter wiping my Debian install after IT got haxored.

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When I saw your site was all exploded by ObviousTroll (2.00 / 0) #2 Tue Aug 29, 2006 at 10:59:12 PM EST

I thought you might have to do something like that. I had had a repeated problem with my server when I first set it up that turned out to be some bot net trying to use a buffer overrun in Apache to install a root kit. This failed, but corrupted libc which meant that nothing else ran after that, either.

The worst part was that I kept thinking it was a hardware problem, and was getting hit every 3 days or so. It was only after I desperately tried a different distro (that happened to have that hole closed) that I saw the corrupt packets coming in port 80 and realized what was really going on.

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Personally by idiot boy (2.00 / 0) #3 Wed Aug 30, 2006 at 05:14:06 AM EST

I just switched to Ubuntu for my box. No more random 'emerge -u world' failures for me!

I did the same by theantix (4.00 / 1) #4 Wed Aug 30, 2006 at 11:07:41 AM EST

But the recent high profile Xorg update fuckup in dapper, plus Debian's newfound commitment to update their stable version more than every seven years... I am thinking that Debian might perhaps be a better choice for servers.
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Xorg on a server? by lm (2.00 / 0) #5 Wed Aug 30, 2006 at 11:24:57 AM EST

Whatever floats your boat, man.

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if they can fuck up Xorg by bobdole (2.00 / 0) #6 Wed Aug 30, 2006 at 01:40:19 PM EST

what stops them from fucking up something more "important" server-wise?

(Apart from the latest cries for more and better QA in the packagesubmission queue)
-- The revolution will not be televised.
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Maybe things have changed by lm (2.00 / 0) #7 Wed Aug 30, 2006 at 02:17:32 PM EST

But the last time I installed Ubuntu, I chose the server option. All it installed was the base system.

There is no more degenerate kind of state than that in which the richest are supposed to be the best.
Cicero, The Republic
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: see #8 by bobdole (2.00 / 0) #9 Wed Aug 30, 2006 at 06:01:42 PM EST

ubuntu
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thanks by theantix (2.00 / 0) #8 Wed Aug 30, 2006 at 02:35:51 PM EST

I figured that implication was obvious, but apparently not. At least you got it.
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