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What is your initial must installation package in your vps/server?
When you deploy a new vps or server, what is the first package of software you install to?
For example, nano, htop, fail2ban, curl, bmon etc.
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curl, mtr, htop, dnsutils, trafshow, tmux
unattended-upgrades, htop, nano, curl, fail2ban/denyhosts.
I'm running puppet for initial setup (and after that). It will install required packages, configure openssh for key login, set up all user keys, set up motd, set up SNMPd, set up unattended upgrades etc :-)
Csf htop
I install immediately:
wget, nano and dstat
I install on demand:
curl, zip, unzip and screen
I used to install fail2ban too, but for whatever reason I stopped, looks like I slowly started to forget about it. Thanks for remembering me about that anyhow.
vim nano wget rsync screen ftp htop nload are few I always use.
the first would be zip, unzip
because it is used for extracting nginx auto installer package. after the installer finish, i'll add nsd, nano, and mlocate
htop, wget, screen, vim, docker (if not OpenVZ)
me = centmin mod lemp stack installer via curl installer
Nano
Ooo forgot about this. Just rebuilt, I need to install this
mtr htop screen duply nano unattended-upgrade
Always setup backups (pgp encrypted to S3 with rotation to Glacier) before anything, do a full backup of the vanilla installation and then a incremental backup every time I do any substantial install or modification.
vim. What else?
emacs
:=>
nano, wget
- basicspython-dev, python-pip
--->> pip install glances (apt-get install glancs sucks in comparision)Apple fanboy
zip , imagemagick , wget , screen , python last version.
you can use zip command with (zip -r NAMEWANT * )
You will get NAMEWANT.ZIP ☺
wget, screen, htop, nano, unattended-upgrades, mtr, zip, unzip, fail2ban, ddos deflate, dnsutils, curl, locate, vnstat
I mostly install
UFW nano wget zip htop fail2ban
As soon as I buy/rebuild a box I make sure to install denyhosts/fail2ban and unattended-upgrades ASAP.
Then I can do other things before setting it up - but I make sure it's not online without that. Else I shutdown it.
nano wget zip
Glad many use nano, I keep getting called a pussy for insisting on using it...
Usual packages: nano, zip or 7z, csf
Sometimes must install depending on purpose: rsync, git and Scout Realtime
As of me, my initial install is nano, curl, htop, fail2ban, unattended-upgrades, curl, unzip, build-essential, rkhunter, bmon and, if I'm going to use remote desktop, xrdp.
That's for @emg that asked! :-)
This thread gave me some more ideas what to include to my initial setup of a server.
I cannot understand what people find to vim for daily use... nano is way to easier...
I use vim just because I learned it first and cbf to learn nano. vim isn't hard either so not sure why ease of use is such a big issue..
Pussy.