It depends on how well documented it is. It probably doesn't really
matter though whether you compile it for your cpu or not. Although,
there's been kind of a war between the linux admins and valve about how
inefficient hlds is, so it should benefit you.
If it gets to be overcomplicated, then skip it and forget it.
Dave "M3pH!sT0pL3s" Williams wrote:
cheers that much appreciated. i'm still configuring the server atm. But
i was wondierng how easy/hard it would be compile metamod for my cpu
seeing the server is running those otpimizations as well
Erik Hollensbe wrote:
On Dec 6, 2006, at 9:09 PM, TwoEyedHuman wrote:
As root,
*ln -s /usr/bin/gunzip /usr/bin/uncompress*
If you plan on running unix servers, I highly recommend reading some
kind of 700 page linux manual on security.
<http://www.amazon.com/Maximum-Linux-Security-Protecting-
Workstation/dp/0672316706>
At least I did. Not only that, but read more books too. You may
have a
long way to go from windows to being a competent linux system admin.
I'm still working toward that goal too! There's a lot of stuff to
know!
And because I have free time and feel like staring down from the
ivory tower, here's some simple tips!
- When you first install your server, do a netstat -lp. Find all the
servers marked LISTEN, and their PIDs. Kill them. If nothing breaks,
disable it in your rc.d system. Do this for all your other servers.
- Do another netstat -lp. Find out all the ports you're still using,
and if they're using UDP or TCP. Then, learn enough ipchains (or
whatever firewalling system you use) to turn everything off but those
ports. Disable ICMP completely, unless you're one of those freaks
like me that wants ping, then learn what you need to do to disable
all ICMP except ping.
- Do not, under any circumstances, allow root logins directly from
remote connections. This especially means FTP, but really you
shouldn't be allowing root from SSH either. Get intimate with the
'sudo' command. If you want to make your security logs readable, get
intimate with configuring ssh to only accept ssh keys. Understand why
it's much, much harder to get in via root this way. You will find
yourself enlightened.
- Take in the lesson that the only truly secure system, is one that
only has one person that knows where it is, is powered off and
disconnected from the network and has no removable media access. Use
this lesson to setup monitoring and off-site backup that meets that
standard.
If you do these four things, you'll be 10 times as secure as 99% of
the hosts out there. I can practically guarantee it.
--
Erik Hollensbe
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