Ubuntu Server Set Up must haves...

[bruce.labitt at autoliv.com]

daejohnson at gmail.com wrote on 03/11/2010 10:13:06 AM:

> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:57 AM, <bruce.labitt at autoliv.com> wrote:
> Webmin
> 
> In case you don't know, this is one of my favorite tricks.  After a 
> `dpkg -i webmin...deb` fails, just do a `apt-get -f install` and it 
> will fetch all the dependencies and finish the webmin install.  Super 
> slick.  Or you could setup webmin repos now that they have them.
>  
> Any other tools that I might as well install in the beginning?
>  
> apt-get and the shell completion makes it so easy to install after 
> things are running that I generally avoid installing anything extra 
> until I go to use it.  However, this is your sandbox, so you do what 
> you want with it.  Screen is one package I almost always install 
> because the network is not reliable.  To think it is would be a fallacy:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_Distributed_Computing 
> 
> =)
> 
> So, I do anything sensitive inside a screen session in case I get 
disconnected.

> I've done many Desktop installs of Ubuntu, but none for a server.  Any
> must haves?  Anything I should watch out for?
> 
> Only do SSH server as and extra package at install.  Doing other 
> packages on that install-check-box-package screen might give you extra
> stuff you don't want.  I find it is cleaner to apt-get the specific 
> packages after install rather than an unknown set from the install. 

Thanks for the suggestions.

I've been burned by many of the items on the list you linked...  Not all 
of them, yet.
Give me time :P

For anyone that is interested: 
http://www.rgoarchitects.com/Files/fallacies.pdf

Helps illuminate the fallacies.

-Bruce

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