> What are some common post install commands I should know about?

- initialize your MTA: exim, postfix, or (shudder) sendmail
- initialize your SVN/GIT repositories
- ldconfig (my boot scripts run it every time--it's cheap)
- mandb (& cron.weekly)
- updatedb (ditto)
- update security certificates (monthly?)
- strip symbols again, unless you're into running the debugger
- "internal" firewall, certainly.  Your router firewall will allow
almost anything.  Don't forget about outbound as well as inbound--you don't 
want to let ET phone home!  I have strong opinions about having a very tight 
"internal" firewall on every system--if something nails one box on your LAN, 
you don't need to have everything else wide-open to everything!
- nmap, along those same lines.


-- 
Paul Rogers
[email protected]
Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates."
(I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-)
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