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Sun, 30 Jul 2006 17:35:56 . . . . powerfox [Daniel supplied a patched yum and reworked utils to both work securely also on n]
Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:36:56 . . . . powerfox [Hints that solve "cannot resolve" problem on vyum guest installs]
Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:41:47 . . . . powerfox [Added hint 4 dns in guest]
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 02:56:28 . . . . powerfox [x86_84 hint: no smp necessary with FC5]
Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:46:43 . . . . powerfox [hints for changing timezone in textmode]
Wed, 07 Jun 2006 03:16:55 . . . . powerfox [added muh.at rpm mirror for Daniel's packages]
Tue, 23 May 2006 17:58:02 . . . . rod.homebydesign.com [Corrected the /etc/resolv.conf entry to be singular (nameserver )]
Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:49:57 . . . . daniel_hozac [Use static context]
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Changes by last author:

Changed:
* You should make sure that Fedora Core kernels don't take precedence over the vserver kernels, do this by adding exclude=kernel to /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo. It might look something like this when you're done:
* You should make sure that Fedora Core kernels don't take precedence over the vserver kernels, do this by adding exclude=kernel to /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo. Same relates to yum as Daniel supplies a more secure and patched chroot-Version.

* The repos might look something like this when you're done:

Changed:
exclude=kernel kernel-smp
exclude=kernel kernel-smp yum
Added:
http://muh.at/dhozac/fedora/$releasever/vserver/$basearch
Changed:
*Once the repository is added issue the following command to install the vserver kernel.

**For Single processor systems

* Once the repository is added issue the following command to install the vserver kernel.

** For Single processor systems

Changed:
**Or for SMP systems
** Or for SMP systems

*** Hint: x86_64 on FC5 is always smp, so use kernel only on that

Added:
* Hint: Daniel provided a chroot yum in his repository which supplies several security patches, his util-vserver packages honor this - so you should use his .chroot version (see [above]).
Added:
** Hint: For software install to your guest it naturally needs working internet access and dns resolution to download its packages.

** 2nd Hint: Changes to package management can only be done when guest is not running.

Added:
vserver gast running && vserver gast stop
Deleted:
** system-config-date (if you want to easily set a timezone for the guest)
Changed:
* Caution: On FC4/FC5 Guests, pam authentication (also used with openssh) enables "pam_loginuid.so" in the /etc/pam.d/* files. Comment those out as they are not necessary and will not load within a guest anyway. This probably is also necessary on updates later on, if the configs get changed. You therefore may add the following command line to a cronjob file or your software update script:
* Caution: On FC4/FC5 guests, pam authentication (also used with openssh) enables "pam_loginuid.so" in the /etc/pam.d/* files. Comment those out as they are not necessary and will not load within a guest anyway. This probably is also necessary on updates later on, if the configs get changed. You therefore may add the following command line to a cronjob file or your software update script:
Changed:
*You are now booted into your brand new VServer. A few things need to be set up before you can get going however
* You are now booted into your brand new VServer. A few things need to be set up before you can get going however
Changed:
*Create a shadow file within the guest and check it for errors:
* Create a shadow file within the guest and check it for errors:
Changed:
*Set a root password.
* Set a root password.
Added:
</code>

* Change the guest timezone: Since FC5 deprecates the textmode system-config-date and depends it on X (which relates to ~60 "overhead RPM's"!), use the following info to change timezone in textmode (if required):

** identify your timezone location from /usr/share/zoneinfo

** copy this file to /etc/localtime (replacing the file there) - that's it

** example:

<code>

cp -f /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Vienna /etc/localtime