Honeypots: Re: Distribution Choice

[Bill Weiss <houdini () nmt edu>]

john winger(jwinger () nationsholding com)@Wed, May 28, 2003 at 07:10:10AM -0500:
> Alot of talk about which distro to use. Been running a honeynet for
> about 1.5 years now and  here is my take.
>
> Gentoo Used it for a workstation for nearly a year at work. It worked
> well. IMO it is not well suited for honeynet use. Recovering from a
> compromise seemed to be too much of a hassle. It is nice to custom build
> everything from source. That can also be a hindrance when rebuilding a
> system.
There's a quick way to not have the hassle.  Build binary packages when 
you're building the system (emerge -b), then it takes almost no time to 
install again.  Just back up the packages and your world file 
(/var/cache/edb/world), and it's almost automatic.

-- 
Bill Weiss
 
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