Updated Gentoo Linux 2005.0 Filesystem

March 30, 2005 9:16 pm

Brought Gentoo up to date, to 2005.0 profile.
Please let me know if I missed anything.
-Chris

HTTP-Retrievable Linode Stats (in XML)

March 16, 2005 1:05 pm

By request of satyap, I've extended the bw-xml script to include more data.
[url=http://www.linode.com/members/bw/?user=[linodeUsername]]http://www.linode.com/members/bw/?user=[linodeUsername]
[url=http://www.linode.com/members/info/?user=[linodeUsername]]http://www.linode.com/members/info/?user=[linodeUsername]
Since this is XML, the old /bw/ URL returns the identical data.
The http request must come from one of the IPs of [linodeUsername]. There is no access control other than this. If that's an issue, let me know.
Example Output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" [...]

CentOS 4.0 now available

March 14, 2005 10:08 pm

CentOS 4.0 now available through the Distro Wizard.

"udev" is installed, but won't run on startup. To enable (if you know what you're doing), grep for "udev" in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and uncomment the line. It's likely that this package can just be removed completely.
I also disabled bdb in /etc/my.cnf, which is needed since it requires [...]