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Gentoo Linux is a source-based Linux distro that uses the Portage package management system.

Gentoo Linux is a source-based Linux distro that uses the Portage package management system.

It is not meant for Beginner Linux users, but rather Intermediate and Advanced ones who are familiar with the command line and kernel compilation (because, during install, the user will have to compile the kernel herself).

Packages (through the Portage system) are also distributed in source form, and compiled to binaries on the user's system upon fetch and installation. The Portage system is smart enough to automatically fetch (and compile) any dependencies a package needs before it gets compiled.

The benefit of Gentoo Linux would be a highly customized -- and thus potentially higher-performing -- system that matches exactly what the user has, without the baggage of unnecessary code that makes the system bigger and/or slower.

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Postgresql migration disaster?

I am running Gentoo. I upgraded from Postgresql 8.2.7 to 9.0.1. Somewhere in the upgrade process, the old Postgresql got unmerged unstead of getting slotted, so it's gone. The old version is also gone from portage so I can't just re-emerge it. I…
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How to let the admin get noticed when 500 errors occurred in nginx?

How to let the admin get noticed when 500 errors occurred in nginx?
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Gentoo Portage, why PostgreSQL 8.4 is named as postgresql-base?

Where does the -base come from? Why the word base, as version 8.1 is simply named postgresql.
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Squid proxy has extremely slow connections when there is some load

We use squid 4.9 on gentoo. Proxying https over a http proxy. It was working fine until an update in the openssl libraries, now connections are extremely slow. Please help, if you know of a way to fix this. Willing to try different solutions.
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ejabberd having issue about undefined function

I am getting errors with XMPP on my Gentoo Hardened server. It runs and says it is running but when trying log many of these errors appear about a crash. 2019-11-01 10:56:54.748 [error] <0.563.0>@xmpp_idna:domain_utf8_to_ascii CRASH REPORT Process…
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"Warning: DocumentRoot [/var/tmp/catalyst/builds/default] does not exist" ― but it does

I'm trying to use Apache to create a build server for hosting ISO images compiled with Gentoo Catalyst: ServerName localhost Include /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/default_vhost.include …
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Missing raid device in /dev/

I have two sata disks: /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. I have 4 partitions: /dev/sd[ab]1 /boot /dev/sd[ab]2 swap /dev/sd[ab]3 / /dev/sd[ab]4 /home And all of them are in raid1. Raid is working fine. Here is cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0]…
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fail2ban Error Gentoo

I've recently setup a new VPS running Gentoo (My first time using the distro so please forgive me is this is a really easy one) and as I've done with other servers installed fail2ban. Setting it up to block the host via iptables, on too many…
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Can`t boot converted VM from KVM on VMware ESXI

VM - 3.14.14-gentoo with LVM Hypervisor - KVM qemu 3.15.7-gentoo I converted a VM using the command qemu-img convert -O vmdk, after that i uploaded the disk to the VMware datastore and created VM with IDE disk. When i boot (initramfs) i get an…
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ZFS on production server don't want to force mount on boot

I use ZFS on production remote gentoo server. All was fine, until my server freezed and I needed to reboot it. It failed with 'device or resource busy' error on mounting rootfs. The simply action need to avoid this - import and export it. But for…
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What is the difference betwen mysql and mysql-community?

In Gentoo, what is the difference between mysql, mysql-community, and mysql compiled with --enable-community-features?
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Gentoo virt-manager IO throttling

I have a problem with virt-manager (or qemu/libvirt) installed on gentoo. Here is My virt-manager installed on Debian Jessie: There I have IO throttling but not on my Gentoo: I tried to search in google but I have not found nothing helpful on…
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Where is the apache pid file on Gentoo?

I need it to configure Monit, but the path in the sample config file is /usr/local/apache/logs/httpd.pid and it's not there. It's also not anywhere in /etc (at least not with that name).
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Finding Evidence of a Denial of Service Attack (Linux)

We had a Gentoo Linux server (that was updated weekly or bi weekly) that higher ups claimed did a denial of service attack on the whole local network and brought it down. Are there any log files we can look at to see evidence of this? We don't have…
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List of installed packages on gentoo with all use flags

What is the trick or possibility to get the list of all my installed packages on gentoo with indication of all used/unused use-flags, versions, etc? Something similar what you see with when run emerge for update, but is there an option to see the…
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