Woody: Fully Loaded
Posted by Anonymous on Sat 25 Dec 2004 at 14:29
So I took notes, and wrote it down, in hope that others may find it useful :
[ Debian : Fully Loaded ]
Note that it's not an ideal walkthrough for Woody - I had to resort to backports for a few services, etc; but anyway, I'm using that config for my live server on Internet, and I find it very pleasant.
Hope you'll find it useful as well.
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Thanks for the link, it's an interesting piece. I like the collection of tips, but I did have a couple of comments;
- You don't really define the kind of services that you'd like to use in advance, which would be a nice first step.
- A lot of the work is done in a non-Debian fashion
For example when you build the mod-security module (something I hope to write about shortly) you would be betting running:
wget .. source.tar.bz apt-get install apache-dev /usr/bin/apxs ..
(The point is that apxs is already installed, getting the source to Apache isn't necessary. Nor is installing all the extra packages you include - if you need them then apt-get build-dep apache would be a better way of doing it)
Backing up is best done with:
apt-get install rsync
But choosing not to run a daemon. Install from the client you can run:
rsync -v -r -e ssh your.ip.address:/root/dir archive-dir/
This connects to the rsync daemon via SSH meaning you don't need to run the rsync server and expose yourself to security risks.
Other software you include such as webmin is already part of Woody, so you could install it with apt-get directly - unless you have a good reason to install from source.
Steve
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