Tinkerning with computers & other fun stuff!
If you have the need for a FTP server on your Gentoo system, Pure-ftp is a good choice. It is a lightweight, standards compliant, and production quality FTP server that is available in portage. To install pure-ftp do the following: The default use flags should be fine for most installations.
The Zoneminder ebuild in the portage tree has been broken for a couple of years now. Here is the process I use to build Zoneminder from source on a Gentoo x86 install:
If you are tired of staring at a black console screen on your Gentoo box you can trick it out a bit using Gensplash. Gensplash or “fbcondecor” allows you to use different background images, fonts and colors to decorate your console so you don’t have the standard black background and white text. It also allows [...]
If you find your ssh server is getting hit by a lot of brute force attempts from the internet, and want to do something to defend yourself against them then denyhosts is for you! It helps to alleviate some of the stress on your server that occurs when someone or lots of someones are trying [...]
Want to host your own IRC server on your gentoo box? Well here is how:
In order to get sound working in Gentoo you need to set up ALSA. If you have not set up your kernel with ALSA support you will need to do so, see here for more information. Recompile your kernel with ALSA support and your sound card built in. Then do the following:
In this guide I will discuss how to set up a Teamspeak 2 Server on Gentoo Linux. Teamspeak is a very popular tool used by gamers and online collaborators to provide an online group oriented voice chat environment. First thing you need to do is log in as root, then type:
In this guide I will show you how to protect your localhost web root with .htaccess and .htpasswd files. By doing this a username and password will be required to enter the site. Let’s get started! As root do the following:
Now that I finished showing you how to set up your LAMP server you are probably going to want to set up sendmail/ssmtp so that some of your new fancy websites can take advantage of it for their email services. Lets get started! We are going to be using ssmtp which will replace sendmail as [...]
In a previous guide I discussed how to set up an Apache web server on your Gentoo box. In this part I will show you how to set up PHP so it works with Apache and MySQL which will allow you to host dynamic content rich websites on your web server. Plus by having MySQL, [...]