On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:54:05PM +0930, Darryl Ross wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Benoît des Ligneris wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Well, I think that this is a useful tool for the vserver project. > > > > We are using v_portmap as well as some others v_* scripts. After having > > installed several vserver hosts I think it is much more easy to modify > > the services than to go after every application and modify one or > > several configuration file. > > > > Also, it is easy to check the existing services running on a given host > > and to create the v_* scripts in order to make sure that no port > > conflict will occur between the vservers and the host. This is a general > > solution to this kind of problem whereas fixing each application > > individually can be, IMHO, a pain... > > Then I would suggest that perhaps you are running too many services on > the host? > > My philosophy is to keep the host as minimal as possible and run > everything inside a guest (generally one guest per service). The only > two services I run on my hosts are sshd and ntpd. Every other service > that I might want to run on the host can be run inside a guest. > > I run sshd on all my machines on a non-standard port (2222 for hosts and > 222 for guests) as a way of stopping my logs from filling up with > door-knock attempts which also solves the port conflict issue.
good points and excellent suggestions! thanks, Herbert > Regards > Darryl > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFC5IWE/XQ6DbmPjokRAqs6AJ9Nr6tZfvzS9sMuPxhjh256gy270ACfUDMg > J4L9YzUCCdOdtdnd1Jegbs8= > =JFu7 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver