Re: [Boston.pm] more on hosting and email suggestions, any experience with VPS?

On Dec 5, 2004, at 2:26 PM, Gyepi SAM wrote:

> The main disadvantage I have found is that you cannot run commands 
> which
> require real root privileges. For instance: iptables does not work and 
> init
> is really a fake init which cannot be controlled.
Thank you for pointing that out. I assumed that I would be able to use 
iptables on the virtual interface (to do things like prevent the 
machine from initiating network connections.)
Maybe I need to do more experimenting with user-mode so I'm not making 
assumptions on what it can or can't do.