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The Lair will be going down soon for maintenance. Due to a very very Bad Thing[tm] which happened during a server update the machine has been crippled to the point I cannot fix it remotely.

I cannot give a good estimate for downtime yet, because I don't know how bad the situation really is. In worst case the server will require a complete reinstallation (again), which could take the better part of a week or more.

For now the gameservers are still running (heck I couldn't even stop them if I wanted to :p) and will remain doing so until the gameservers crash or we bring the system down.

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Well it seems the gameservers have expired. It's now a matter of getting the server in so I can reconfigure the machine.

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Yeah there was a Steam Update today I believe, that auto update probably knocked it over?

Most likely yes...

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Bloody hell what a nightmare!
Still as long as your having fun

Well, to be honest it's a new oportunity to review the configuration of the lair. Between now and the last time I got to fix the lair I've learned quite a bit more about a lot of things.

Also, the lair will be featuring an up-to-date kernel, GNU C Libraries and scripting engines (Perl/PHP) and will most likely have the game server configured more effectively.

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Can you paint a smiley face on it?

Hahaha...


So what build of linux etc are you going to be putting on.

And can you make it VAC protected (gameserver)?

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Everyone is in love and flowers pick themselves.

AFAIK, the Lair servers are already VAC and HLGuard protected.

Correct.

Linux we use is SlackWare.

Most likely I will put on Slackware, although I am starting to consider other distros such as SuSE (I am starting to fall in love with YaST2). The Kernel will be either a 2.4.x or a 2.6.x, depending on several variables. The rest of the services will simply be whatever is new, stable and secure.

As far as the Lair is concerned; it was already running in secure mode.

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Nice.

What about Fedora or Mandrake? (The only ones I've used, ofc )

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I know both distros and I am not very enthusiastic about either of them. Mandrake is too much a desktop oriented distro for dummies and fedora has been giving me too much crap at the company I am working at right now.

I like Slackware because it's the one Linux distro that is closest to BSD/Unix. SuSE's nice, esp its YaST tool and the way it organizes it's services, but it has some drawbacks.

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Gref, I have two hdds, and I'm running Apache Service on WIndowsXP, but I really want to run a dual boot *nix OS on my other HDD... which one would you recommend?

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If you want 'easy & flexible' I'd say SuSE. If you want to get hardcore, very stable, almost BSD/Unix like, get SlackWare. If you will have no linsux (j/k) choose any flavor of BSD.

Especially if you want to run a GUI from the Linux distribution I recommend SuSE. You can set it up with Slackware but it's a pain to set up manually.

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